Criminal Justice Reform

This segment of Access Houston we have Dav Lewis, the founder of 2nd Chances.Life, along with Judge Darrell Jordan &…

11.18.19

New York City's mayor ignores prison reform activists and plans renovation of controversial prison complex.

03.19.17

Glenn Martin, a former Rikers inmate and advocate for criminal justice reform, has continually made the effort to have Rikers…

03.13.17

Elliott Earl Williams' tragic death in an Oklahoma jail cell represents a damning indictment of the criminal justice system's treatment…

02.09.17

As President Barack Obama prepares to leave office, NewsOne takes a look at some of his most impressive wins.

01.03.17

John Legend addresses crime in America and how the Prez can continue helping...

12.13.16

Obama plans on implementing regulations that would lower the amount of child support that prisoners pay when they’re behind bars,…

10.17.16

Keith Lamont Scott was shot in the back, the abdomen and the wrist by officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

10.13.16

President Obama commuted the sentences of 102 nonviolent federal drug offenders. The president plans to continue commuting the sentences of…

10.07.16

"For too long policy makers have chosen to play politics with prime-policy by enacting so-called tough on crime slogans and…

04.09.18

The bill will be introduced to the Senate and if it passes, will be signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

04.11.18

Davontae Sanford, 23, who served close to nine years in prison for a quadruple homicide, left prison in Ionia, Michigan,…

06.09.16

Underscoring his calls for criminal justice reform, President Barack Obama on Friday commuted the prison sentences of 42 people who…

06.06.16

Forty-one-year-old Aitabdel Salem, a native of Algeria, spent five months on New York's Rikers Island because, uhm, officials failed to…

06.02.16

"It just doesn't make sense to require a nonviolent drug offender to serve 20 years, or in some cases, life,…

05.06.16