A federal court gave California two more years Monday to reduce the population of its overcrowded prisons, yielding to pressure from state officials who said they could meet an impending deadline only by shipping thousands of inmates to other states.
After a conservative-led revolt against the Farm Bill, a five-year congressional funding program for agricultural and hunger programs, a deal will reportedly reach the president’s desk on Friday.
Haiti President Michel Martelly held his first-ever meeting with United States President Barack Obama on Thursday at the White House in Washington, DC.
The past week brought a burst of momentum to the cannabis legalization movement, as three pro-marijuana initiatives made it past a crucial hurdle.
Unbeknownst to many, the prison system has become a for-profit business in which inmates are the product–a system that has shocking similarities to another human-based business from America’s past: slavery.
By Dr. Ron Daniels President, Institute of the Black World 21st Century, Founder, Haiti Support Project January 1, 2014 marked the 210th Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, one of the…
A larger percentage of black fathers help their children with their homework compared to white and Hispanic fathers, according a study released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Andy Shallal glanced around the room full of D.C. voters, finally attentive, and then back at the two teenagers who wanted to first read poetry.
Today a special on “kids for cash,” the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
The John J. Moran Prison in Rhode Island is one of the last places one would expect to find a thriving meditative community.
There are 2.3 million people in US prisons in conditions that are often inhumane and at worst life threatening.
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