criminal justice
Scott sisters freed!
January 4, 2011Jamie and Gladys Scott received the news on December 29 that their 16-year prison ordeal was over at last: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour commuted their double-life sentences and ordered them out of prison. They were originally...
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Time to end stop-and-frisk policing
November 10, 2010Crime rates have dropped, but the unconstitutional, and therefore criminal, harassment of black and brown youth is on the increase. This racial profiling is anti-worker. It must be stopped.
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Charges of coverup, racism in police shooting
November 2, 2010Details surrounding the fatal police shooting of Pace University football player Danroy Henry are murky, but a police leak has spurred charges of racism and a coverup.
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Over 4 million U.S. citizens denied right to vote
September 23, 2010A protest rally calling for restoration of voting rights for ex-felons was held last week at the University of the District of Columbia.
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Groups demand pardon for Scott Sisters in Mississippi
September 21, 2010A rally last week in Jackson, Miss., called for freedom for Jamie and Gladys Scott, two Black women given double life sentences in 1992 for allegedly being accessories to an armed robbery in which $11 was...
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