World News: Where's Oprah's big donation to BLM youth?

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N.J. politicians push to give prisoners voting rights

There are only two states — Maine and Vermont — that allow felons to vote while incarcerated. New Jersey may be on the verge of becoming the third . Former inmates can vote in the state after they have completed their sentences and paid all court fees. But that leaves nearly 100,000 incarcerated people in the state without voting rights. New Jersey's Legislative Black Caucus is pushing a law to change that.

"To disenfranchise those who have made mistakes and are paying for them is wrong," said Democratic state Sen. Ronald Rice, one of the sponsors of the legislation that was announced Monday.

Where's Oprah's big donation to BLM youth?

The philanthropist, former talk show host and movie star joined actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney in supporting the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting. Oprah matched the Clooneys' $500,000 donation. And she compared the brave students who protested for tighter gun legislation with "Freedom Fighters of the 60s who also said we've had ENOUGH."

And Opinion writers such as the Chicago Tribune's Dahleen Glanton are wondering where national support was for Black Lives Matter youth who protested poor policing on streets across the country. In her Tuesday column "As country listens to Florida teens, Black Lives Matter youths feel ignored," Glanton says that the "young people of Black Lives Matter are hurt. And they have every right to be."

Read the rest of her column, here.

Prison overcrowding in Oregon

Oregon's Coffee Creek Correctional Facility for women is hundreds of inmates over capacity. Instead of building another prison, the state has repealed a measure that increased sentencing for drug and property crimes, which women are arrested for at a higher rate than men. The measure also put people in jail for fewer offenses.

About 65% of women sentenced to prison in 2016 were there for drug and property crimes. Only 43% of men were imprisoned for those crimes.

After mountain of complaints, cop remains on Miami police force

Exactly how many excessive force complaints should it take for an officer to get kicked off of a police force? Mark Slimack is still a Miami-Dade officer after 16 complaints, all from women and minorities according to a lawsuit moved to federal court last week.

The suit, originally filed in November, also states that Slimack brutalized Shareese Jackson, a black woman who was standing outside of a Florida bar in 2014. The officer, according to the suit, choked her, slammed her face against his police car and damaged her jaw, which had just been fixed during an operation. Slimack stated that Jackson had been intoxicated, but the state's attorney dropped those charges. Jackson is suing for excessive force and battery.

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