Last month Attorney General Eric Holder made a bold request for States to rescind their disenfranchisement of formerly incarcerated persons.

Unfortunately the root of this practice is justified to those who do not believe in second chances or the Christian power of forgiveness and redemption.  It is the law and can be j...

Drugs are dangerous and do harm to those who use them. Crime rates increases and neighborhoods deteriorate. Unfortunately, the unforeseen consequence is that sentences are not equally administered. Most Americans, even a large majority of African Americans believe that the reason that more African American males are incarcerated is that they committed more drug crimes. Statistics do not justify this stereotype of African Americans committing more crimes.

Congressman C...

The unintentional consequence of the Thirteenth Amendment has had some impact on the barring of humane treatment of prisoners and the formerly incarcerated.

AMENDMENT XIII

SECTION 1.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishmentfor crime whereof the party shall ...

Bryan Stevenson inspiration speech on TED and guest appearance on the Colbert Report Show provides a glimpse of the seriousness of the high rate of recidivism. His TED speech on Identity calls us to become aware...

Reducing recidivism increases public safety and saves taxpayers’ money. According to Adam Gelb, Director of the Pew Center,  the reduction of 10 percent of repeated offenses will save the taxpayer more than a half-billion dollars in one year.

There are seven aspects of services needed for successful reentry into society, these are education, training, housing, employment, attitudes/behavior modification, care of children and family, finance and debt management (McQuire and Raynor2006). [i]The first four listed here are the services of primary importance; education, training, housing and employment.  However, the other services listed; attitudes behavior modification, care of children and family sustain the success of the firs...

In the 2015 President's State of the Union Address, it was only a fleeting moment that he mentioned crime and incarceration. His statement addressed the issue of citizen unre...