Despite representing only 13.6 percent of the population, Black people account for 53 percent of the 3,200 exonerations through August 2022, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Registry of Exonerations.
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The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude but contained an exception for “a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Advocates, inmates and lawmakers are fighting to remove the provision.
Using “violent rhetoric” against police at a South Carolina protest earned Brittany Martin a four-year-prison term, but similar invective at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was punished by fines or suspended sentences, writes TCR commentator Billy Sinclair.
New research released by the Council on Criminal Justice shows that the gap between Black and white state imprisonment rates has narrowed significantly over the last two decades, with drug crimes driving the decrease.
Two years ago, while apologizing to the survivor, Sarah Collins Rudolph, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said legislative involvement was needed in deciding compensation, but no bill has been introduced since.
Unless there is greater diversity in the field, much of the technology being developed will continue to ignore the impacts on people of color, according to a new report.
For a charge that typically sees up to 30 days in jail, Brittany Martin was given a harsher sentence than some Jan. 6 rioters, say advocates.
Daniel Harawa, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, argues that a “tonal shift” led by Chief Justice John Roberts has opened the door to “a more racially conscious criminal jurisprudence.”
The latest Pew Research Center survey of public opinion among Black Americans found 35 percent want police budgets to go up, but 39 percent want no change and 23 percent want public safety funds reduced and reallocated to community services.
While Denver’s population is 54 percent white, white people made up less than 50 percent of applicants since 2018, as other groups started to apply more, matching up to the demographic makeup of the city’s residents.