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According to the National Institute of Justice, recidivism is defined as the illegal actions that take place over a three-year cycle after the release of an inmate, that resulted in rearrest, reconviction, or return to jail with or without a new sentence. Every year, the United States releases ap...

The Problem Cash bail is an amount of money that a person must pay to be released from jail. The purpose is not to punish the accused, but rather to guarantee that the accused will return for their court date. Around three-fifths of the people in American jails, however, are there, not because th...

Defund the police versus more public safety. Abolish prisons versus law & order. The debate rages on. Meanwhile, our cities burn, our youth kill each other, and the toxicity of American life thickens. The situation is getting bad, so it's time to think outside the box. As a black man, I am exhaus...

Back in the day, my grandfather appeared in a local newspaper for walking around naked and telling people in his neighborhood that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. He was on PCP. I heard the story from my mother initially, who'd bring it up as an example to stay away from drugs when I wa...

Are theactivities being undertaken in Portland a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest? I've heard it referred to as such on both sides of the warring media, but does that make it so? Black Lives Matter can refer to the organization or the movement. Black Lives Matter, the organization, seems to be a ...

The criminal justice system has been described as broken as far back as 1982 when President Ronald Reagan declared his war on drugs and crime. Since then we have seen mass incarceration in such horrific numbers that many have now called for the abolition of prisons. We have traveled through the c...