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Organizations and city leaders in Columbus creating methods to reduce crime Organizations and city leaders in Columbus creating methods to reduce crime By Olivia Gunn | March 6, 2021 at 12:24 AM EST - Updated March 6 at 12:24 AM COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - With violent crimes becoming consistent in the Chattahoochee Valley, city leaders and crime prevention organizations are coming up with solutions to put an end to the crimes. Dr. Eleem Hud, president and CEO of Project Rebound, Inc., said it starts at home with your children first. “People have been seduced into crime because crime pays,...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Jamie Binnall is an attorney, a professor at California State University Long Beach and an author. He's also formerly incarcerated. "In 1999, I wrecked a car I was drinking and my best friend sitting next to me got killed," Binnall said. "For that horrible decision. I ultimately spent four years one month and six days in two maximum security prisons in Pennsylvania." Since then, Binnall received his Juris Doctorate, his LL.M. and his Ph.D. Today, he is the Executive Director of Project Rebound at CSULB. "Project Rebound is a statewide initiative that began at San ...

Two nonprofits in Columbus are working one step at a time to help keep violent crimes down.

Updated on December 28, 2020 at 2:34 pm NBC 7 We're just a few pages away from closing the book on 2020, but this year's story is merely a chapter in the centuries-long fight for social justice in America. Ardent demonstrations in the streets, from the biggest metropolitans to suburbs like La Mesa, California, mostly in response to Black men and women killed or otherwise disserved by police, amplified the voices of movers and shakers in our communities and opened wide the eyes and ears of the privileged many who downplayed or outright ignored the country's division along racial lines. It's be...

Since March, the population in California’s prison system has shrunk by more than 22,000 inmates, returning to levels not seen since 1992. Those individuals who have recently left prison have come home to unprecedented challenges created by a global health crisis, major economic downturn and social services stretched thin. Even in normal times, people returning home from prison face multiple challenges: residential instability, a parole system that can seem to prioritize surveillance and punishment over reintegration, stigma against those with criminal records in housing and labor markets a...