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Kimonti Carter and Shawn Reite had been sentenced to life in prison without parole decades ago. They had been released from prison in 2022 after a court ruling.

Richard Fariña was the Baby Boom generation's chief myth maker. “The conscience of my elusive race gives not a fig for me, baby. But I endure, if you know what I mean.” - Richard Fariña After reading David Hajdu's excellent Positively 4th Street which chronicles the early careers of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Richard…

Although it’s rainy and cold in Morristown, NJ, this Tuesday, October 3, 2022 evening, inside the MPAC auditorium, the atmosphere is warm and inviting as audience members ready themselves for a concert by the roots music group, The Wood Brothers.

Social media is going crackers over a very cheesy saturation ad campaign spreading takeover Lunchables ads all over Muni buses, and some people just don’t have the appetite for this.

Harsh sentencing in the US has led to many economically deprived young men receiving hard-to-contest life sentences but in new documentary Since I Been Down, hope awaits

The inmates in this documentary offer reasons for rethinking the harsh sentencing of young people in Washington State.

ComingSoon is excited to debut a clip from the upcoming film Since I Been Down by Gilda Sheppard.

Law enforcement is investigating threats sent to Rep. Tarra Simmons, D-Bremerton, after she filed a bill regarding sentences for drive-by shootings.

UCSC’s Visualizing Abolition project — made up of graduate students and faculty aiming to further the discussion on mass incarceration and policing in the U.S. through art — was awarded a $1.977 million grant this week by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The initiative has produced two art exhibitions and a speaker series that has reached thousands across the country.

Old, new, major, minor—here’s our city, and sometimes our state, on the screen. Photo collage: Shutterstock by Everett Collection and Featureflash Photo Agency, Seattle Met composite. A pan across lake union. Then we plunge into a tugboats engine room, where we meet the married, middle-aged couple who own it. Theyll spend the next hour and a half engaged in bouts of slapstick bickering. That’s how Seattle first hit cinema screens, in 1933, in Tugboat Annie. Its no...