Crime Down, Black Arrests Up
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although crime is on the decline in the United States, the rate of arrest of Blacks continue to exceed that of Whites, according to a...
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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 years of being on the rise, the number of Black men locked...
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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 states to reduce the number of juveniles arrested and...
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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 the murder of a security guard in the spring of 1974,...
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Is Duane Buck Facing Execution in Texas Because as a Black Man, He is Likely...
Special to the NNPA from the North Dallas Gazette (HOUSTON) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. released a new video highlighting the racial discrimination in the Texas death...
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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 the judicial systems in the U.S. as being biased against African Americans,...
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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 to students, the same can’t be said of private prisons,...
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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 death, largely because Blacks are overrepresented among murder...
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