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Trial set for 6 reputed members of Chicago’s O-Block gang charged in brazen Gold Coast slaying of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoChicago was in the midst of a tumultuous summer beset by the pandemic and violent protests when...
Trump, Kim Kardashian got me clemency. Second chances aren't soft on crime.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1996, I was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense and was sentenced to life in...
How the U.S. Justice Department got 37 gang members off the streets in Mississippi
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe U.S. Department of Justice said Friday that the final defendant in the prosecution of members...
I lost my grandson to fentanyl. We owe young people like him a lot more
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Derek Abella / For The Times) My grandson Joshua died from fentanyl last month. This beautiful and...
How John Handy left a life of crime for the ministry and his Topeka community
The Topeka Capital-Journal via Yahoo News· 2 months agoJohn Handy, 49, joined a Chicago-based gang when he was 9 years old. When he was 15, he was...
Update: Stanislaus leaders approve Homeboy Industries-like program to help former inmates
Modesto Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoStanislaus County leaders on Tuesday unanimously approved a $1.5 million budget item to create a...
Should people in prison serving life for crimes committed when they were under 21 get another...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCHICAGO -- Antonio House hasn’t known freedom since he was 19, when he was locked up as a suspect in...
Milwaukee's Soaring Homicide Rate Renews the Debate Over Cash Bail
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoVictor Prado, with MKE Downtown, clears debris near the corner of North Water Street and East Juneau...
Leader of new Lake County Peacemakers says, ‘We can stop cycles of violence and retaliations’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThese days, North Chicago resident Shawn Lewis is working a lot of early mornings. Weeks into his new role as the program director for the Lake County Peacemakers, a group formed to intervene ...
A New Documentary Sheds Light on a Pivotal Movement in Asian American History
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLee’s heartbreaking, remarkable, and undeniably complex story is the subject of Free Chol Soo Lee, a...