By The Admin on January 3, 2012
The millions of men and women who leave our nation’s prisons and jails each year often struggle to be reconciled with their families, friends, and communities. True rehabilitation and justice means providing a bridge for ex-inmates to reenter society without stigma, shame, or discrimination.
The year 1787 saw many important milestones in American history. In 1787, [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice, Policy & Issues
By The Admin on December 12, 2011
Convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal said Monday that he was surprised and somewhat disappointed that he did not get a new sentencing hearing in the racially charged murder case that had kept him on death row for nearly 30 years.
Last week’s decision by prosecutors to drop their bid for capital punishment meant Abu-Jamal received an automatic [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice, Pennsylvania
By The Admin on December 8, 2011
Maureen Faulkner waited nearly 30 years for her husband’s murderer to be executed. But following a seemingly endless cycle of legal appeals, she said she realized it would never happen.
On Wednesday, Faulkner gave her blessing to the decision by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams to stop pursuing the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice
By The Admin on December 7, 2011
Prosecutors on Wednesday abandoned their 30-year pursuit of the execution of convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther whose claim that he was the victim of a racist legal system made him an international cause celebre.
Abu-Jamal, 58, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison. His writings and radio broadcasts from [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice
By The Admin on November 27, 2011
On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint in this rural crossroads. When the smoke cleared, Joseph Robert McNair, a black father of six, lay at the feet of the community’s white constable.
That McNair was dead, and that Luther Steverson had killed him are about the only [...]
Posted in Criminal Justice, Federal Government, State & Local News
