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Citizens reentering society after prison face barriers. Here's how Dismas House is helping
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAbout 29.6% of released citizens return to incarceration within three years according to data from...
Hunter Biden’s gun case goes to trial | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser· 2 days agoThe first lady, who followed hours of mundane interviews with dozens of prospective jurors with rapt...
Trump's pledge to deport millions of immigrants would devastate Texas businesses | Editorial
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThese immigrants generated costs such as education, medical care and incarceration. But their...
Will Trump be able to vote for himself in 2024? It depends, experts said | Fact check
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 days agoYork, and Bowie said New York only takes away a person's right to vote while the person is incarcerated for a felony. A felon's right to vote in New York is also automatically restored upon ...
Will Trump be able to vote in Florida? Here's what to know about voting rights for convicted felons...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThat includes more than 65,000 people in Wisconsin, according to The Sentencing Project, an advocacy and research group. The impact of felony disfranchisement falls disproportionately on communities ...
Multiplying Trauma: Kentucky Set to Add More Kids to its Troubled Juvenile Jails
Cincinnati CityBeat· 2 days agoA state law taking effect next month will require more kids charged with violent offenses to be held...
In Florida, teens caught with guns get a second chance to turn their lives around
NPR· 17 hours agoThat’s compared to a 21% re-arrest rate over that period for other defendants convicted of gun possession – a 76% decrease. Narisse, 24, recently graduated from the Philadelphia ...
Public safety expert sees flaw in Chicago’s summer approach
WGN Chicago via Yahoo News· 1 day agoMayor Brandon Johnson's administration has released a $100 million summer safety plan that includes...
Safe Streets, social media, schools: MONSE faces easier budget hearing as Baltimore violence...
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA long-awaited violence intervention pilot program based in four city schools finally could get off...
Tennessee's public defender system only formed in the 1980s. Here's why that happened
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBut in that case the Supreme Court applied the rule of counsel to all state cases where the...