Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
The Trump regime will host NATO’s 70th anniversary celebrations in Washington on April 4, the day Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.
“We have over 2000 people sitting in prison that were convicted under this racist, unconstitutional Jim Crow law” that allows guilty verdicts by just 10 of 12 jurors, said Belinda Parker-Brown, pre
Maryland’s Ujima Peoples Progress Party is preparing for a statewide conference in Baltimore, May 11, under the theme, “Elections and Beyond: Building Independent Solutions for the Black Community.
Reparations is not a token gesture of concern, apology or even solidarity; it seeks justice and redress of wrongs through the transformation of a people’s condition.
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