By Lucius Gantt – I consider myself to be a nice, peaceful and law-abiding man but I have been incarcerated on more than a few occasions, mostly for being present, but not exactly participating, at civil rights demonstrations and protests. The last time I was jailed for trying to kill a policeman, or as the […]
Julianne Malveaux: Women in prison – what about the children?
By Julianne Malveaux – There are more than 200,000 women who are currently incarcerated, 115,000 in federal or state prisons and 99,000 in local jails. Nearly one million women are on probation — representing 26 percent of those on probation; 98,000 are on parole. Women’s incarceration has grown by more than 800 percent in the […]