America is now an unlikely example of justice ... the disproportionate numbers of Black prisoners in custody — the mass incarceration tide in the US began to turn. This trend was given a further ...

In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

Muntaqim claims “we have to decolonize our thinking,” by teaching “a new history that speaks truth to power by recognizing America as an imperialist ... Muntaqim asked the audience, “Mass ...

On the Alabama trip, they toured museums and historical sites telling the story of slavery, racial segregation and mass incarceration in America. Then they sat down in small groups and talked ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania is ranked third in the nation for people serving sentences for life without parole, ...

"80 percent of those studies were conducted in the United States, and almost all of them occurred during periods of mass incarceration," says McCuish. "Canada is not the United States. Canada does ...

The incarceration rate of Black Americans has fallen sharply in the 21st century, according to a new study, but the trend has coincided with a rise in imprisonment of white Americans with no college ...

It’s been three months since California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, a new law that pledged to provide ...

In a statement sent to AsAmNews, the JACL compared detaining undocumented immigrants at Guantanamo Bay to holding 125,000 ...

The state Parole Board turned two illegal immigrant murderers over to ICE agents in December while freeing a staggering 21 ...

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