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Illinois Higher Education in Prison Task Force Adopts Recommendations for Governor, General Assembly

Final report encourages State to take action on legislative plan  Illinois is one step closer to implementing a legislative action plan that will significantly improve...

Tyrese Gibson and Terrence Howard Are Out to Topple For-Profit Prisons

Photo: Courtesy of The Avenue H. Drew Blackburn   The dynamic duo discusses their new film, ‘The System.’ We also asked Jodie what he thinks about Kendrick...

Is "Black Lives Matter Another Excuse To Blame White People? Ask Dr. Karen!

When You Need Some Advice Don’t Ask Twice… Ask Dr. Karen!   ***To all my on-line readers, I would like to thank each and everyone of...

Former Prison May Be Converted Into A Marijuana Shop

In a fitting encapsulation of how the tables have turned on U.S. marijuana policy, a former correctional facility in rural Colorado may one day...

White House Admits Prison Won't Solve The Drug Problem, But Drug War Grinds On

The Obama administration's drug czar admitted Wednesday that locking people up won't keep them from using drugs, but he stopped short of renouncing punitive...

'Antiquated' Laws Funnel Kids Into Adult Prisons

Keeping youth offenders in adult prisons increases their risk of suicide, sexual assault and returning to prison, and is the result of "antiquated laws,"...

This Man was Sentenced to Prison, Now He Wants to Fix the Law that Put him There

WASHINGTON -- Reynolds Wintersmith wasn't supposed to be here. Not in front of the White House, or in the halls of the Justice Department,...

Correctional Officer Charged With Having Sexual Relationship With Inmate [VIDEO]

Kenyetta Foxe, 28, a correctional officer at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested after it was discovered that she had sex with…

Black Men Who Dropped Out of High School Have Very High Risk of Going to Prison: Study

A jaw-dropping number of African-American men who do not complete high school risk ending up in prison. According to a new report from the Brookings...

Armed Robber Was Never Told To Report To Prison

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- After he was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, Cornealious Anderson was sentenced to 13 years behind bars and told...

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