Prisons, by contrast, generally hold felony offenders whose sentences are one year or longer. The lighter blue line at the top is the national trend for African-American incarceration in prisons ...
African-Americans have fought for the United States ... During this time the unit never lost any prisoners or territory to the enemy. France awarded the entire unit with Croix de Guerre, that ...
Tom Bodkin discussed Fort Oglethorpe’s role in WWI & WWII, highlighting its German POWs and overlooked African American ...
Glynn Simmons and Richard Phillips were exonerated after decades in prison. Their stories reflect huge disparities in who ...
The prison problem was especially challenging, as most prisons had been destroyed during the war. Previously, African-American slaves had been subjected to the punishments at the hands of their ...
"I can tell you, being a political prisoner in a federal prison, that the young men in this country that are African American ...
In the 1930s, Mississippi Governor Mike Conner went to Parchman Farm, the state penitentiary, and held impromptu “mercy courts” that freed dozens of African-American prisoners, in an act that ...