Blacks in Government (BIG) has become the latest national African-American group to officially call for an end to the "war on drugs" after passing a resolution at its delegates meeting last week.
WASHINGTON – US prisons are becoming a hotbed for indoctrinating inmates and turning them into radical Muslims, US lawmakers were told Wednesday in the second of a series of controversial hearings.
The US's exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whole, a new study finds.