“Our current drug laws distort the priorities of police, who end up spending too much time arresting people for being addicted to drugs instead of focusing on community safety.” The groundwork is being laid now ...
“I’m not asking for a pardon. I’m not asking for a pass. What I’m asking for is a fair trial.” NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden has been giving interviews with major media outlets this week in ...
“Our results are consistent with theories that predict that marijuana legalization will displace illicit criminal organizations and decrease crime.” Two economists affiliated with the Philadelphia Federal Reserve looked at the effects of marijuana legalization on ...
“It’s just common sense. If you’ve been convicted of a hate crime, you don’t get to buy a gun. Full stop.” The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on Tuesday on a series of ...
Field drug tests are unable to distinguish between marijuana and hemp, and that has thrown a wrench in marijuana prosecutions in states that have legalized hemp only. (By P. Smith, Stop the Drug War) After ...
“Every single separated kid has been terrified. We’re [seen as] the enemy.” Migrant children seperated from their parents during the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy last year suffered intense trauma, as detention facilities proved inadequately ...
“I will send you to Paris. You’ll live there, you’ll chat a little, we’ll get you cleaned up. We’ll make you a portfolio, I’ll show your pictures to a rich man.” One of the lesser-known ...
“CoreCivic’s profit model is built around understaffing and constant lockdowns of poorly run, exceedingly dangerous prisons.” A July report from the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) and No Exceptions Prison Collective found that CoreCivic, a ...
The Trump administration has requested to amend a settlement that would allow them to indefinitely detain migrant children, but activist organizations have vowed to fight it. (By Kevin Johnson, The Conversation) The Trump administration is ...
There seems to be something of a cumulative effect gradually moving people toward realizing the need for policy intervention. (By Kent E. Portney and Carol L. Goldsmith, The Conversation) In the aftermath of the shootings ...
“This case has rained violence upon every person of color even remotely involved.” The New York Police Department fired the officer whose chokehold led to the death of Eric Garner on Monday, closing a five-year ...
There are now more black people in correctional control (prison, jail, probation, or parole) than there were enslaved in 1850. Sen. Bernie Sanders released a sweeping plan to overhaul America’s criminal justice system on Sunday, ...
The primary reason Christian groups are now focusing on immigration, I’d argue, is simply that the notion of welcoming strangers and caring for the vulnerable are embedded in the Christian tradition. (By Laura E. Alexander, ...
680 workers from seven food processing units were detained by ICE last Wednesday in Mississippi. (Peoples Dispatch) At least 377 people remain in detention in Mississippi, U.S. on Wednesday, August 7, after the Immigration and ...
Under U.S. refugee laws, a political asylee has the right to stay in the United States if they would be tortured, killed or both back home. (By Mario Garcia, The Conversation) The ongoing threat of ...
The characteristics of police officers who shoot civilians closely reflect the pool of all police officers. (David Johnson and Joseph Cesario, The Conversation) In the debate over fatal police shootings of minority citizens, one theme ...
U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered the execution of five federal prisoners who now have execution dates set for December and January. (By Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune) In reviving the rarely used federal death penalty, ...
Jeffrey Epstein used his relationship with Les Wexner to entice and allegedly assault many desperate women with promises of modeling careers. Jeffrey Epstein’s personal and private life was shrouded in secrecy, and many things about ...
Two Texas House committees have been meeting for hours to discuss the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Local officials say federal agencies are stretched thin. Some Texas lawmakers say their concern is conditions for migrants ...
“There is no question that Wester’s crimes were deliberate and that his actions put innocent people in jail.” Jackson County, Florida Deputy Zach Wester was arrested Wednesday on 52 counts including racketeering, false imprisonment, fabricating ...
Florida’s anti-democratic poll tax will cost the state hundreds of thousands of voters — and hundreds of millions of dollars. (By Robert P. Alvarez, OtherWords) The poll tax Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed into law ...
With a new case against billionaire socialite Jeffrey Epstein, a who’s who of politicians, celebrities, intellectuals, royals and more could come tumbling down in the investigation into Epstein’s child prostitution ring. Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein ...
Recent examples abound of the U.S. government detaining citizens after falsely accusing them of breaking immigration laws. (By Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina D. Manta, The Conversation) We are law professors who have studied civil ...
“People have to speak up and they have to take action,” Castro said of his decision to release footage of women detained in an El Paso border facility. “This was about shining a light on ...
“You don’t get to knock my child down and silence that voice without 500 more raising up. Knowing that he won’t be out again to cause more harm to more people helps.” On Friday, a ...
“We cannot continue to throw money at a dysfunctional system.” Both chambers of Congress passed legislation to provide billions in aid for the growing border crisis, but House Democrats are concerned the Senate-passed version does ...
“I can’t think of any other investigation that we’ve undertaken, at least in my 30 years, with that many people taken off the street at one time.” After thousands of law enforcement officers allegedly posted ...
“The federal government is out of touch and our cannabis laws are out of date. I’m pleased that the House agrees, and we are able to move forward.” (StopTheDrugWar) In a history-making vote Thursday, the ...
“Companies that make money from the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration policy and a criminal justice system that disproportionately imprisons people of color are going to pay taxes like any other corporation.” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) ...
“How could you not do it, living in a place where people are dying by the dozens around you every year. How could you not respond?” The controversial and high-profile case of a humanitarian aid ...
“We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger, the system is broken.” The Trump administration is reportedly planning on keeping more than a thousand detained children in a military base that ...
“Regardless of what you think about inmates, what do you want for your community? You have to understand that they all come back eventually. If you don’t rehabilitate them, how are they going to successfully ...
Policing in southern slave-holding states had roots in slave patrols, squadrons made up of white volunteers empowered to use vigilante tactics to enforce laws related to slavery. (By Connie Hassett-Walker, The Conversation) Outrage over racial ...
City leaders issued a cease-and-desist letter after they said proper permits were not issued before the project began. But on Thursday the mayor said the project has been given permission to continue. (By Julian Aguilar, ...
“When they passed the First Step Act, sentences like Sonny’s are the wrong they were trying to right. He had never done a day in prison and then got a mandatory life sentence as a ...
A shooting in Cleveland, Texas was the 149th mass shooting in 2019. “A man suspected of shooting four people – one fatally – at two locations in Cleveland, Texas, fatally shot himself on Wednesday, according ...
“Many people now recognize that once you’ve done your time, once you’ve served your penalty, we ought to give you an opportunity to re-establish your life like everybody else as a matter of fairness.” In ...
“Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defense to prove she has just cause for her refusal to give testimony,” said Manning’s legal team. (By Jake Johnson, Common ...
Nicknamed ‘the Rock,’ Connecticut’s Cheshire Correctional Institution is making a radical attempt to reform and rehabilitate 18 to 25-year old prisoners. Four years ago, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy toured Germany’s prison system while visiting the ...
“I know this border. The president is doing the right thing, he’s right on this issue, and if he asked, I’d go work for him in a heartbeat” – Mark Morgan President Trump announced the ...
“This one’s particularly ugly.” (By Julia Conley, Common Dreams) In what one critic deemed a “nauseating example of the revolving door” through which powerful political players often move in and out of the private sector, ...
This video is part of a series on immigration at the border. In a previous video Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan rode along on a water drop and aid drive in the Arizona desert which ...
“Strikes me as just a frustration of not being able to solve a problem. Honestly, it wasn’t Secretary Nielsen’s fault.” In the past four days, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson resigned, U.S. Secret ...
“The SAFE Banking Act would go a long way toward improving safety, transparency, access and justice in the cannabis industry.” On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee voted on a proposed bill that would protect ...
“I think this is clearly a response to what you learned through freedom of information requests… They did not like to have to disclose that information. This is an effort to prevent that in the ...
“Legalizing marijuana is the smart thing to do and the right thing to do in order to advance justice and equality for every American.” A bill known as the Marijuana Justice Act which was first ...
“We will no longer bank the private prison industry.” (Reuters) JPMorgan Chase & Co has decided to stop financing private operators of prisons and detention centers, which have become targets of protests over Trump administration ...
2019 looks like it could be the year that Texas joins the majority of other states in legalizing medical marijuana. Texas is set to join the list of 33 U.S. states and Washington DC that ...
In Vallejo, California, an area that has seen other high profile police violence cases in recent years, police shot dead a young black man named Willie McCoy who was sleeping in his car as officers ...
Law enforcement agencies working on Super Bowl security made 33 arrests and rescued several victims ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. America’s greatest sporting event is likely also America’s biggest sex trafficking event. Football fans flock ...
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