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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Ex-Felons Are Slow to Vouch for Other Former Offenders
04 May 2020
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Black former offenders “need to see strong evidence" that the formerly incarcerated person has really changed, said Sandra Susan Smith, a Unive
Victoria Law
As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, States Are Failing Incarcerated People
29 Apr 2020
Although prisons have become hot spots of the pandemic, most of the penal overseers have taken only token measures, if any, to evacuate inmates.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be “Evacuated”
27 Apr 2020
“The coronavirus is a death sentence on Black people,” who make up two-thirds of Louisiana’s prisoners, said Belinda Parker Brown, head of Louisiana United International.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
San Francisco Sends 40 Percent of Jail Inmates Home
13 Apr 2020
Chesa Boudin, the leftish district attorney for San Francisco, claims to have reduced the jail population by nearly 40 percent since the onslaught of the epidemic.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Could Safely Release Three Out of Four Prisoners
13 Apr 2020
Although Illinois has responded to the Covid-19 epidemic by releasing about 500 state prison inmates, “the scope of the releases is way too small and way too slow, said Alan Mills,
Human Outbreak Response
Humanity Not Cages: Demanding a Just and Humane Response to Outbreak
25 Mar 2020
With 2.3 million people in the United States in prison or jail on any given day, an outbreak in these facilities poses a threat to the entire country.
Noelle Hanrahan
Prisoners and Coronavirus
18 Mar 2020
Prisoners and guards are at much greater risk than the general population. “Prison health care systems are not prepared to deal with this epidemic.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
NYC to Celebrate Release of Last Move 9 Prisoner
10 Mar 2020
“We want to show our appreciation and love for what this 73 year-old man has gone through,” said Gwen DeBrow, one of the organizers of a reception for Delbert Africa, who was relea
Linn Washington Jr
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Smacks Abu-Jamal Again
04 Mar 2020
The Justices used extraordinary authority to delay Mumia’s appeal of his murder conviction.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Last Surviving Member of the Move 9 is Released
02 Mar 2020
Delbert Africa, imprisoned along with eight other members of the Move organization in 1978 in the death of a Philadelphia policeman, is finally free to “tell his story,” said Mumia Abu Jama