President George W. Bush signs the Second Chance Act. Pictured left to right: Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA); Attorney General Michael Mukasey; Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL); Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH); Sen. Joe Biden (DE); Rep. Lamar Smith (TX); Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (WI);...
Introduction of H.R. 7105, a bill to assist in combating crime by reducing the incidence of recidivism, providing improved Federal, State, and local correctional facilities and services, strengthening administration of Federal corrections, strengthening control over...
Rep. Charles Rangel introduces H.R. 11605, a bill to establish minimum prisoner treatment standards for prisons in the United States, and to create an agency to hear complaints arising from alleged infractions of such standards; to the Committee on the Judiciary....
Rep. Frederica Wilson (FL), left, holds hands with Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, on their way to speak at a news conference after attending the House Judiciary Committee Democrats'briefing on racial profiling and hate crimes on Capitol Hill, in Washington,...
Introduction of H.R. 9252. A bill to establish a Juvenile Research Institute and Training Center; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reps. Chisholm and Mitchell sponsors. June 17, 1971
Press release on black lawmakers assembling for the 1972 Black Lawmakers Conference on Prison Reform in New Orleans.
Prompted by the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee held a briefing on racial profiling and hate crimes on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. From left to right: Reps. Bobby Rush (IL), Frederica Wilson (FL), Corrine...
Rep. Charles B. Rangel breaks down the history and current state of drugs in Harlem, the influence from international dealers and what law enforcement and Congress are doing about it in this 1971 article for the New York Law Journal. July 6, 1971
Rep. Maxine Waters speaks on the subject Police Brutality, A Nation Epidemic, at the Riverside Faith Temple, Sunday, June 20, 1999, in Riverside, California. Waters came to Riverside to lend her support and voice into the investigation of police brutality in the wake...
Rep. Augustus Hawkins remarks on the injustice shown in the Warlest Jackson killing. March 2, 1967
Extension of Remarks H.R. 7351. A bill to amend Title 18 of the United States Code by adding a new chapter 404 to establish an Institute for Continuing Studies of Juvenile Justice. Referred to Committee on the Judiciary, April 7, 1971. July 28, 1971
Two inmates at the Attica State Prison, Attica, N.Y., visit with another inmate inside a makeshift hospital set up by the inmates inside cellblock D, September 11, 1971. The prisoner rebellion at this maximum security prison heads into its third day.