Nation May 02 Watch 5:38 Staggering arrest rates strain Baltimore community relations with police All week long, many young people from the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood and other inner city Baltimore communities have been protesting the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of police. Natasha Pratt-Harris, an associate professor of criminal justice and sociology at… By PBS News Hour
Nation May 02 Watch 4:15 In Freddie Gray’s neighborhood, a bleak outlook for family life In the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore, where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested, both the number of babies born to teenagers and the incarceration rate are exponentially higher than the national average. Tara Huffman, the director of the criminal… By PBS News Hour
Nation May 02 Life in Freddie Gray’s childhood neighborhood by the numbers On NewsHour Weekend Saturday, we bring you “Sandtown by the Numbers,” a special series of reports on life in Sandtown-Winchester, the impoverished Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew up and was arrested on April 12. By Elisabeth Ponsot, Daniel Costa-Roberts