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4 Percent of Those Sentenced to Die are Innocent
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Since 1973, more than 300 innocent defendants have been sentenced to…
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Black and Brown Inmates Herded into Private Prisons
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although private schools are often lauded for providing a better education…
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Farrakhan: African Americans Deserve Their Own Courts
[USA Today] DETROIT — In a fiery speech Sunday delivered to 18,000 at Joe Louis Arena, Minister Louis Farrakhan blasted…
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Is Duane Buck Facing Execution in Texas Because as a Black Man, He is Likely More Dangerous?
Special to the NNPA from the North Dallas Gazette (HOUSTON) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. released…
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Blacks are Still Majority of the Wrongfully Convicted
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When a Baltimore grocery store employee fingered 26-year-old Michael Austin for…
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Budgets Pressures Lead to Less Incarceration of Black Youth
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Dwindling state budgets have had an unintended positive effect – prompting…
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Black Women See Dramatic Fall in Incarceration Rates
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent Kemba Smith’s case highlighted problem of Black women in prison. WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After…
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Crime Down, Black Arrests Up
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although crime is on the decline in the United States, the…
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