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Formerly incarcerated being denied licenses for occupations trained for while in prison

December 28, 2023 by Stuart Clarke

Felony convictions can prevent individuals from obtaining required professional licenses, hindering their chances for success after incarceration, The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LEGAL, RE-ENTRY, Recently Posted Tagged With: Caitlin Dawkins, Jesse Wiese, Pell Grant, The Washington Post, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Supreme Court

Female correctional officers win lawsuit for hostile work environment

June 11, 2018 by William Harris

Joyce Zink started at San Quentin in 1972. In this 1973 photo, while working at Folsom State Prison, she’s wearing the newly adopted uniform.

Female correctional officers have won a $20 million settlement of a lawsuit claiming sexual harassment and a hostile work environment in federal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Center for Women and Work, class-action settlements, Dana Britton, Heidi Burakiewicz, Rutgers University, sexual harassment, Tammy Padgett, Taronica White, The Washington Post

Police continue to shoot about 1,000 people a year

May 8, 2018 by Joe Garcia

987 people were fatally shot by police officers in 2017 Police across the country shot and killed approximately the same number of people in 2017 as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Chuck Wexler, FBI, LAPD, Michel Moore, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Police Executive Research Forum, Preservation of Life medals, Ron Honberg, The Washington Post

Black incarceration on the decline

May 8, 2018 by John Lam

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The percentages of Blacks and Whites being incarcerated are converging. Nationally, Black incarceration rates are dropping, while Whites are on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Gelb, Black and White incarceration, Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, Fordham University, John Pfaff, Marshall Project, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Sentencing Project, The Washington Post

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