Opinion High Incarceration rates drive high unemployment rates and high unemployment rates drive high incarceration rates By John Pawasarat May 11, 2013 4:00 p.m. Prison time is the most serious barrier to employment for Wisconsin male workers, making ex-offender populations the most difficult to place and sustain in full-time employment. When driver’s licensing...
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Ravi Baichwal April 5, 2013 (NEW ORLEANS) (WLS) — The death of a teenager who wanted to dedicate his life to public service is triggering an anti-violence movement after 18-year-old Joseph Massenburg was killed while volunteering with AmeriCorps. His parents, both pastors, are sharing their grief. Those pastors are struggling with the pain...
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Victims and their families often fail to get the support they need. Here are some of their stories By DR. PETER K. B. ST. JEAN March 26, 2013 “My daughter was still at the hospital, and they came and asked, ‘Where the victim mother at?’ My aunt said, ‘Here go one of the victim mothers.’...
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Photo credit: AP | This photo provided by Sherry West, of Brunswick, Ga., shows her son Antonio Santiago celebrating his first Christmas in December of 2012. West says a teenager trying to rob her at gunpoint Thursday asked “Do you want me to kill your baby?” before he fatally shot 13-month-old Antonio in the...
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From 2008 through January 2012, more than 530 youth have been killed in Chicago with nearly 80 percent of the homicides occurring in 22 African-American or Latino community areas on the city’s South, Southwest and West sides. Neighbors hold a candlelight vigil in rememberance of 18-year-old Albert Vaughn, who was known for playing basketball...
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BY STARLA MUHAMMAD -STAFF WRITER- FEB 15, 2013- Phillip Jackson CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The deeply entrenched, long-term problem of youth violence in the country’s third most populous city is a complex one that will take a multi-layered, multi-faceted approach to solve. In addition, more police on the streets is not the answer, says Chicago activist Phillip Jackson,...
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6-Month-Old Girl Shot Five Times Dies Chicago top cop said incident has “very strong gang overtones” By Emily Florez and Courtney Copenhagen Tuesday, Mar 12, 2013 Johnylah Watkins’s little body was wounded in five places from the shooting. Emily Florez reports. Click Here to see video footage: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/6500-maryland-avenue-shooting-197082281.html A 6-month-old baby has died after she...
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BY STARLA MUHAMMAD -STAFF WRITER FEB 15, 2013 Phillip Jackson CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - The deeply entrenched, long-term problem of youth violence in the country’s third most populous city is a complex one that will take a multi-layered, multi-faceted approach to solve. In addition, more police on the streets is not the answer, says Chicago...
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By Nirvi Shah, Education Week, on February 19, 2013 7:09 AM | UPDATED The role of police in Denver public schools will change so that officers will actively work on issues civil rights groups and others say are responsible for a “school-to-prison pipeline.” Denver police and the 84,000-student school district today signed an agreement that says school resource officers must...
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