Amendment 4 Offers Second chances and a sensible addition to the Constitution

Amendment 4 Offers Second chances and a sensible addition to the Constitution

October 29, 2018

By Sean Pittman   Who would have thought a move to grant convicted felons a second chance to regain their voting rights back would be the most sensible amendment question on Florida’s November ballot? Amendment 4 would end an unfair, draconian clemency procedure that has its roots dating back to

Private Facility Offers Clues for Rethinking Stubborn Challenges in U.S. Incarceration

Private Facility Offers Clues for Rethinking Stubborn Challenges in U.S. Incarceration

October 29, 2018

Part 2 of 2-part Series: By Hazel Trice Edney  Trice Edney News Wire  The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund has described the U. S. government’s use of for-profit private prisons as “an embarrassing and degrading stain on our democracy”. The organization contends “the maintenance and treatment of those who

An inmate hopes this prison program will give him the tools for a new life: Part 1 of 2-part series

An inmate hopes this prison program will give him the tools for a new life: Part 1 of 2-part series

October 22, 2018

By Hazel Trice Edney  Special to the Outlook Elvin Colton (Not his real name) is a 32-year-old ninth-grade dropout and recovering drug addict in prison for the fourth time. But later this year when he goes home to his children and family, he believes he will have spent his final