A Boy Among Men - The Marshall Project
WEBFeb 25, 2015 — He becomes a slave in the fullest sense of the term.”. the Scottsboro Boys 1 The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine black teenagers who in 1931 faced false accusations of raping two white women on an Alabama train. Their trials were marked by lynch mobs and all-white juries, and they have since been pardoned.
New Data Shows Violent Crime Is Up… And Also Down. - The …
WEBNov 3, 2023 — According to the FBI’s crime statistics, the number of murders dropped by 6.1% from 2021 to 2022, but is still higher than where it was prior to the pandemic. For some observers, the jump in serious violent crime was always bound to stabilize, as the shock from the early pandemic wore off. “Violent crime rates had been trending down for …
4 Reasons We Should Worry About Missing Crime Data - The …
WEBJul 13, 2023 — When the FBI released a new hate crime report this spring with more data, it showed a nearly 12% increase in hate crimes from 2020 to 2021. In June, when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his presidential campaign, he bragged about Florida’s crime rate hitting a 50-year low in 2021.
I Got A Life Sentence At 17. Then I Was Raped In Prison.
WEBNov 1, 2018 — One day, he came into the office, which was located in the back of the barracks and had brown paper covering its windows. He locked the door, and he raped me. Then he told me to “get my ass back to work,” and left. In the following days and weeks, he regularly threatened me, telling me to keep my mouth shut or else.
Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Parole
WEBJul 10, 2015 — 8. Parole boards can dictate your life on the outside, too. Parole boards don't just decide who to send home. They also decide what the conditions of people's parole will be, and what the consequences are if they violate parole. In some states, boards can even decide whom to consider for parole and when. 9.
The Short, Fraught History of the ‘Thin Blue Line’ American Flag
WEBJun 8, 2020 — Before the flag came the phrase. The idea of a “thin blue line” can be traced all the way back to a 1854 British battle formation, a “thin red line” used during the Crimean War and then popularized in art, poetry and song. According to lawyers James Clapp and Elizabeth Thornburg, who have dug up the history behind popular phrases, the ...
How Policing Has — and Hasn’t — Changed Since George Floyd
WEBAug 6, 2022 — At the federal level, bipartisan police reform negotiations died in Congress last year, followed by a consolation executive order signed by President Joe Biden in May. That measure replaced an ineffectual, and largely forgotten, executive order signed by former President Donald Trump in 2020. The Biden order was, like Trump’s, reflective of …
What Is Prison Like for Women and Girls? | The Marshall Project
WEBOct 10, 2017 — The U.S. makes up just 5 percent of the global population, yet nearly one-third of all the female prisoners in the entire world are here in America.. There are more than 200,000 women and girls incarcerated nationwide, a number that has increased by more than 700 percent since 1980.Men still make up the vast majority of inmates, but …
See if Police in Your State Reported Crime Data to the FBI
WEBIn 2022, 31% of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI's national database after transitioning to a new data collection system, according to the latest statistics from the FBI. Participation has improved since 2021 when almost 40% of the agencies were missing.
The Awful Thing I Saw in Prison That Stunned Me Into Silence
WEBAug 23, 2018 — There were even older men encouraging his behavior. Younger guys, totally hooked on the street life, gazed at him with awe. You could see they almost instantly idolized him. It was sickening to see — to realize that in equal measure to the shame I was always hearing from the guys around me, there was also a violent pride.