prison industry
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Let’s Shut Down the Prisons
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist How did we let it get so out of hand? The number of…
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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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US Weighs Clemency for Inmates Jailed for 10 Years
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is encouraging many nonviolent federal prisoners to apply for early…
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Prisons Profit from ‘Lock Up’ Quotas
by La Risa R. Lynch Special to the NNPA from The Final Call “When you make prisons into a profit,…
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