(Washington Post) – Sharanda Jones — prisoner 33177-077 — struggled to describe the moment in 1999 when a federal judge sentenced her to life in prison after her conviction on a single cocaine offense. She was a first-time, nonviolent offender. “I was numb,” Jones said Read More
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Last week I wrote about the shocking story of how our Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) willfully brought crack cocaine into the Black neighborhoods of our nation to make cash for financing a revolution in Nicaragua. This is going down Read More
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There have been incidents along our nation’s path that are outright disgusting and with racial animus. The internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II along with the seizure of their land and businesses is Read More
by ROB GILLIES, Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — City councilors called on Toronto’s deputy mayor Wednesday to “orchestrate a dignified exit from city hall” for Mayor Rob Ford, who acknowledged smoking crack in a “drunken stupor.” One of the mayor’s policy advisers, meanwhile, resigned. That Read More
Funding Shortage Causes Prison Overcrowding By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Department of Justice will spend $6.6 billion this year to stack drug dealers, addicts, shooters, and illegal immigrants like Lego blocks in prisons that are overcrowded, understaffed and barely safe, Read More
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