By Piper BlakeWeb Content Manager With the Black Lives Matter movement and the impending election, emotions are running high and the mass media is using this to their advantage. People can be led like sheep when they are emotionally vulnerable, and the media is the shepherd herding them up. Getting on social media now is like deep-diving into an opinion forum that you never asked to be apart of that […]
By Shannon Sampson News Reporter SAN MARCOS – Bryan Stevenson is pushing for reforms in the criminal justice system and spoke to a full house Feb. 5. His overall message for the audience: hope. According to Stevenson, one in three black male babies and one in six Latino male babies are expected to go to jail or prison within their lifetimes. The Equal Justice Initiative is set to create more […]
By Kimberly Clay Other Side Drive Executive Producer The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 2.3 million people in American prisons, and in the past few decades there has been an unsettling increase of women in prison. In this podcast, we cover the topic of injustices faced by women in the prison, the role of motherhood when families are separated by the justice system, and […]
By Shannon Sampson News Reporter SAN MARCOS -- Anthony Graves, previously known to the state of Texas as “Death Row Exoneree 138”, spent 18 and a half years in prison-- 16 of those spent in solitary confinement-- for a crime he knew nothing about. It wasn’t until 2010 that he was finally released from prison. Graves heard from a family member that the police were looking for him, so he […]
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