Roughly 71% of incarcerated people are Black in Maryland, a state that is roughly one-third Black. That “staggering” figure is the worst in the country, according to Attorney General Anthony Brown. He and the state’s chief public defender, Natasha Dartigue, announced Wednesday that the two offices — often adversarial in the courtroom — will partner in a new collaborative designed to tackle the .
Maryland’s Bowie State University is now offering people serving time at Jessup Correctional Institution the opportunity to earn a degree in sociology and a certificate in entrepreneurship.
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States, on the other hand, are carrying out fewer executions this year – seven so far – than in any year since 1983, when five people were executed. This is in part because the COVID-19 pandemic poses serious health risks for the personnel responsible for putting prisoners to death.
Among the state executions postponed this year was that of Pervis Payne, who in November was granted a temporary reprieve by Tennessee’s governor until April 9, 2021. Payne was sentenced to death in 1988 for the stabbing deaths of 28-year-old Charisse Christopher and her 2-year-old daughter. He also was convicted of assault with intent to commit first-degree murder of Christopher’s 3-year-old son, who survived.