2015/5/20-On the morning of April 12, Michelle Gross woke up to screaming. Gross, known as “mom,” in West Baltimore’s Gilmor Homes area, left her home to find Freddie Gray — someone she called “son” — being dragged into a police van. Note: …..
2015/5/18-It has been getting easier by the day for politicians to talk about fixing the nation’s broken criminal justice system. But when states in the Deep South, which have long had some of the country’s harshest penal systems, make significant …..
2015/05/19 – Hinds County owes $9.4 million on its Joint State-County Work Center, leaving county officials to discuss legal action against the MDOC over the agency’s plans to move state inmates from the program. Hinds County owes $9.4 million on its …..
2015/05/19 – It is a grave intellectual sin to conflate wearing uniforms with holding yourself accountable. Phil Bryant in his editorial insists upon selling this mythology of the grim yet reasonable police officer, the upstanding individual in uniform whose only …..
2015/05/19 – The nation’s second-largest city voted on Tuesday to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in what is perhaps the most significant victory so far in the national push to raise the minimum wage. The increase …..
