Cory Booker boxes Trump’s attorney general pick into commitments to progress...
Attorney general nominee William Barr mixed defiance and conciliation at his confirmation hearing Tuesday when presented with his past praise for mass incarceration, ultimately signalling a greater...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A raucous crowd of 60 people bore down on Washington, D.C.’s city jail Thursday night, drumming on buckets and chanting messages of love and support to the people inside, who had...
View ArticleA national bail-out movement has freed 300 black mothers in 2 years
A slew of advocacy groups held a rally in the Bay Area Wednesday calling for the end of harmful pretrial detention systems that disproportionately affect communities of color, as part of the National...
View ArticleBooker’s latest criminal justice proposal: Clemency for 17,000 people
A week before he is scheduled to appear at the Democratic presidential debates, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has released a plan that would extend clemency to “people serving excessive sentences” for drug...
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