Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and other essentials beyond income for a minimum standard of living.
Many rural areas, especially in states such as Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, still have significant infrastructure gaps that disproportionately impact Black Americans.16 Lower-speed DSL and cable deployments are linked to neighborhood economics; more affluent areas are more likely to have high...
CRIMEThe U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has data showing that 75 percent of state prison inmates are either classified as low literate or did not complete high school. The Literacy Project Foundation reported that three out of five people in prison can’t read, and 85 percent of youth o...
Mississippi, the Supreme Court threw out a "voluntary" confession that was obtained after police officers repeatedly strung a suspect up in a tree and whipped him. The Court's decision was clear: Confessions obtained by force cannot be used as evidence at trial. By the 1950s, confessions ...
It was in the 1920’s when crime was at an all time high. Prohibition was the cause of a major wave of crime. Super gangsters were shooting on the streets and could not be contained in regular prisons.So Homer.C.Cummings had to stop this mayham and buit this super prison Alcatraz for...
Mel: The whole concept is, it would be my rendition of Living for the City: a boy is born in hard time Mississippi, surrounded by; a child is born, with no state of mind. Blind to the ways of mankind. See, I did it like that. So that's basically like the hip-hop version. Ev...
Similarly, serving as a lead charge nurse offers advanced pay options. California, Alaska, Oregon and Massachusetts offer the highest labor and delivery nurse salary options. The lowest salaries were reported in South Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. ...
The paths of Frank Wada and Don Seki first crossed in 1943 in Camp Shelby south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where the 442nd Infantry Regiment trained. “The only white people were our officers,” Wada remembers. “They treated us well. They had to, because we were gonna go and fight wit...
AIs can also perform judging tasks, weighing evidence and making decisions, probably not in actual courtrooms, at least not anytime soon, but in other contexts. There are many areas of government where we don’t have enough adjudicators. Automated adjudication has the potential to offer everyone...
Fears about the virus have also prompted changes in prisons around the country. In Mississippi on Thursday, officials said the state Department of Corrections would suspend visitation at facilities that house inmates. The State Correctional Institution in Phoenix, where Bill Cosby is housed, has begun...