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‘It Has Been Set back Years Now’: Free Calls to Those Who Are Incarcerated Hits A Snag in Milwaukee County

March 5, 2022

By Edgar Mendez Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Edgar Mendez, Free Phone Calls for Incarcerated People, Incarcerated People, Incarceration

When Deportation Becomes Illogical: Twenty-year old possession offense has drug interventionist, and legal resident, facing deportation.

May 5, 2017

Beaver Dam, WI April 22, 2017:  U.S. citizens may think President Donald Trump is trying to find and deport some 11 million “illegal” immigrants who are not only trespassing on American soil, but … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Deportation, Incarceration, Selepri Amachree

60 years After Being Deemed Unconstitutional, Jim Crow Continues to Plague America

October 4, 2014

By Srijan Sen Five decades since Brown v. Board of Education desegregated American public schools across the country, African-Americans now face a lifelong struggle against the criminal justice … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Incarceration, Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration, Srijan Sen, War on Drugs

Black Men Show Little Signs of Progress in 40 Years

August 2, 2014

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black men are no better off than they were more than 40 years ago, due to mass incarceration and job losses suffered during … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Armin Rick, Black Unemployment, Derek Neal, Freddie Allen, Incarceration

Incarceration Rate for African American Men: Impacting Families and the Community

July 4, 2013

In Milwaukee County, more than half of African American men in their 30’s are in or have been in state prison.  And that is creating a tremendous impact on the men, their families, their neighborhoods … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: C H McClelland, Incarceration, Lois Quinn, Willie Brisco

SDC hosts Nonprofit Center Workshop on Milwaukee’s African American male incarceration rate

June 20, 2013

A new report “Wisconsin’s Mass Incarceration of African American Males: Workforce, Community & Nonprofit Challenges” by John Pawasarat and Dr. Lois Quinn of UWM will be the focus of a workshop … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: .h, c, C H McClelland, C.H., Clarence Johnson, Hannah C. Dugan, Incarceration, John Pawasarat, Joyce Mallory, Lois Quinn, Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee, SDC, Torre Johnson

Education over incarceration

April 16, 2011

By Jasmin K. Williams Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Education over incarceration is the message of a report released by the NAACP. The nation’s oldest civil rights … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Benjamin Todd Jealous, Billboard Campaigns, Education, Incarceration, Jasmin K Williams, NAACP

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