Oscar nominee Colman Domingo’s new film, “Sing Sing” is guaranteed to pull at your heartstrings. Directed by Greg Kwedar, “Sing Sing” is inspired by the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program founded in 1996 at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York.
Dr. Jemeker Thompson-Hairston – author, wife, mother, publisher, and minister of the Gospel – was once known in the streets of L.A. and the world, as the “Queen Pin.” Now, as a minister to women in prison, she urges loved ones to remember those who are currently serving time.
More than 117,000 people are shot in America annually, and gun homicides disproportionately are concentrated in urban areas, particularly in impoverished and underserved communities of color.
A California prison program that employs inmates illegally spent $1.3 million on goods and salaries, including $82,000 in artificial turf that has gone unused, as part of a pattern of “gross misconduct,“ state auditors said Tuesday.
The state Supreme Court ruled that Cosby’s deal with former prosecutor Bruce Castor should have been honored. In a phone call with Cosby attorney Jennifer Bonjean, she states, “I am thrilled! I haven’t made my way through the entire opinion yet, but it seems that the court agrees with what we knew all along, that Mr. Cosby never should have been prosecuted in the first place. If a prosecutor’s word is not his bond, then we as a society — and the entire criminal justice system — is in trouble.”
Miss Allen has long believed that his true story could become a symbol of possibility and change.
Solis announced the movement on the table that was in deliberation on July 7, to close one of Los Angeles’ largest correctional facilities; Men’s Central Jail looks to be shut down in one year. In retrospect, the supervisors reflected on the role of mental health within the justice system and found that mental health issues should not equate into carrying out time imprisoned without healing treatment.
The non-profit organization will welcome women released from local jails and state prisons, as those facilities attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Courtesy The Marshall Project/PBS Although the number of people in prisons and jails in America has slightly declined, numbers released on Thursday, April 25, by the Bureau of Justice Statistics still show that nearly 1.5 million individuals were in prison by the end of 2017. The statistics also note that the U.S. continues to lock up more people than any other nation. And, despite a narrowing disparity between incarcerated black and white women, females have emerged as the new face of mass incarceration. “I don’t think this should be much of a surprise as two of the main for-profit prison
San Francisco’s mayor has joined other members of her family in requesting an early release from prison for an older brother who has served nearly two decades of a 44-year sentence on a manslaughter conviction.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors recently approved the final environmental impact report for the Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility–otherwise known as the new “mental health jail”. The approval green lights, what opponents to the project are calling “a wasteful spending of over $2.2 billion to build nearly 4,000 new jail cells for an already failing jail system.”
We have millions of workforce energy stored in prisons, jails.
March is Women’s History Month – A Salute to Champions of Faith Evangelist Georgia Horton is on fire for the Lord. She accepted Christ while imprisoned and after discovering her calling to evangelism, she shared the Good News Gospel with fellow inmates for 21 years and continues to spread His message since being released three years ago. What factors led to you becoming an evangelist? I came from an environment of mental, physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Even though there were many different facets to my recovery, only one led to my deliverance. God used another evangelist to speak into
A study published last year by the Vera Institute found that, since 1970, the number of women in jail has increased at a rate 14 times that of men
Prop 47 changed some crimes from felonies to misdemeanors in an effort to reduce prison overcrowding.