A white man was convicted on the rare charge of murder as terrorism for killing an elderly black man in hopes of inciting a race war. A white supremacist and former Army veteran from Baltimore ...
The FBI released Marzieh Hashemi, 59, an American-born Iranian journalist from a 10-day detention in Washington, DC, as a material witness in a criminal matter before a grand jury. Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin, was reunited ...
(StopTheDrugWar) It’s been a year we couldn’t wait to put behind us, but as 2018 comes to an end, we can look back on some advances on the international drug policy front, as well as ...
One sheriff in Alabama is facing questions after he personally pocketed $1.5 million in funds intended to feed detainees at ICE immigration centers. Sheriff Todd Entrekin of Etowah County, Alabama lost his re-election bid this ...
“Having held themselves out as the pre-eminent global adviser … the highest standards are expected of Goldman Sachs. They have fallen far short of any standard.” On Monday, Malaysian authorities pressed charges against Goldman Sachs ...
“What will they tell the next victim when she questions why she did not know Jacob Anderson was a sex offender?” In a case eerily reminiscent of Brock Turner for its remarkably lenient sentencing, a ...
After being detained for three weeks, a Philadelphia man just barely escaped being deported to Jamaica in a case of mistaken identity. ICE almost deported Peter Sean Brown, a 50-year-old American citizen born in Philadelphia to ...
Is 90 days in jail an adequate punishment for a police officer who rapes a handcuffed woman he is escorting back home? That is the case with Curtis Lee Arganbright, 41, a former Colorado police ...
Sexual assault again rocks the Catholic Church as police raid Houston headquarters for documents related to sexual abuse committed by a local priest. The police in Texas stormed the Catholic headquarters in Houston, seizing sensitive ...
A handcuffed man who was severely beaten in court in 2012 by a police officer is appealing a lawsuit against the city of Denver. Last week a man, Anthony Waller, who had his head smashed ...
(StopTheDrugWar) Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced out of office Wednesday after less than two years in office, and while there is intense concern about the impact the move could have on ongoing investigations ...
“We have an opportunity to correct course if Democrats win big in November. There’s no question: cannabis prohibition will end.” Last week, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) unveiled a plan for a Democratically-led House to push ...
Canada is offering to pardon marijuana offenses, but won’t fully expunge records. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed over 500,000 people charged with marijuana possession could have their slates wiped clean. Canada just legalized recreational ...
With the help of the California Innocence Project, Horace Roberts now walks free after spending 20 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Horace Roberts was declared factually innocent on October 15, 2018, ...
Since 2007 - the beginning of the Great Recession - the economy of Oregon has added more jobs via the alcohol and marijuana industries than its popular technology sector, according to the state’s Office of ...
Marijuana sales in Colorado are still setting new records, but the rate of growth has slowed down. By August of this year, Colorado had hit $1 billion in annual marijuana sales, the fastest the state has ...
(Stop The Drug War) As of Wednesday, October 17, marijuana is legal in Canada. Our northern neighbor becomes the second country to fully legalize weed (after Uruguay led the way in 2013), and the first ...
Detective Roger Golubski of Kansas City PD is accused of extorting poor black women for sexual favors and retaliating against one woman who refused him by framing her son for a double homicide. After being ...
Washington state ruled the application of the death penalty is racially biased and converted eight death penalty sentences to life in prison. The state of Washington struck down the death penalty last Thursday. The state’s ...
Yoga may not only help with anxiety, stress and symptoms of depression but may also help improve memory and concentration and decrease paranoid or obsessive thoughts. Researchers studied a surprising way for prison inmates to ...
Marijuana legalization is on the ballot in multiple states this November while support for legalization is continuing its upward trend. A new poll released Monday from the Pew Research Center says that now 62 percent ...
The guardians of children who were diagnosed with PTSD stemming from exposure to gun violence are suing the state of Illinois for stricter gun control measures. Two mothers and one grandmother in Illinois are taking on ...
A corrupt cop in Florida was busted planting drugs, leading to the overturning of 100 plus drug cases. Jackson County Judge Wayne Mercer dismissed 119 drug cases linked to former deputy Zachary Wester. Investigations carried out ...
Justin Schneider, 34, who pleaded guilty to second-degree felony assault for kidnapping a woman, choking her until she passed out and masturbating on her, will walk away without serving any time in prison. Anchorage District ...
Eighty-year-old Arthur Perrault, a former Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing children is to be arraigned in the United States. Perrault was extradited from Morocco to face federal charges of sex abuse committed 26 years ...
Eighteen people whose criminal convictions were linked to corrupt Chicago cop Sgt. Ronald Watts will have their charges dismissed on Monday. The wrongful convictions will be thrown out by Judge Leroy Martin Jr. of the ...
The man who rose to fame for inventing 3D printed guns is now on the run for allegedly having sex with a minor. Police believe Cody Wilson, the 30-year old founder of Defense Distributed, took ...
News Broke on Wednesday that the FBI and the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau arrested seven current or former NYC cops for their involvement in a large scale prostitution ring. A source told the New York ...
Last Thursday 26-year-old Botham Jean, a black man, was shot and killed in his own home by a white female Dallas police officer who claims she mistook his apartment for hers after getting home late ...
Up to 20,000 marijuana convictions in New York City may soon be wiped out thanks to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Gonzalez is leading the charge in NY to dismiss convictions for marijuana offenses that ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Idaho ruled that it is unconstitutional and cruel to punish homeless people for sleeping in the streets when no shelter is available. Three judges of the ...
A community is outraged and a family is in mourning after a Dallas off-duty police officer entered a black man’s home and killed him on Thursday night. The unnamed female office claims she entered the ...
Pulled over for speeding and booked into Mineral County Jail because of unpaid traffic tickets, 27-year-old Kelly Coltrain died days later from withdrawal symptoms after her requests for medical attention went ignored. After a 13 ...
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill into law that abolishes cash bail. California is the first U.S. state to abolish cash bail, with Gov. Brown saying that everyone will now be treated “equally ...
(Stop The Drug War) Nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana since 2012, but all of those states have been in the West or the Northeast. This year, with marijuana legalization on ...
Incarcerated former Enron boss, Jeffrey Skilling, 64, has been released from prison and to a halfway house at an undisclosed location. Skilling was incarcerated for 12 years for committing corporate fraud amounting to several millions of ...
An Arkansas wheelchair-bound woman, Candace Paige Lydon, has filed a federal lawsuit against the authorities of the Garland County Detention Center (GCDC) for the jail abuse she suffered during her pretrial detention at the facility. ...
Alexander Williams Jr. a retired U.S District Judge has been tasked with leading an investigation panel that will look into the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) corruption scandal. The investigation comes at a ...
A Nova Scotia jail has joined the U.S. prison strike that has lasted just over a week and rallied inmates into hunger, work, or commissary goods strikes. Despite publicity challenges, prison advocates have confirmed small ...
In a rare win for victims of police shootings, a jury sentenced former Texas Police Officer Roy Oliver to 15 years for the shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Oliver, 38, was convicted for shooting 15-year-old ...
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions together with U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Justin Herdman, announced last week the arrest of one of the most prolific dark net fentanyl vendors in the world, as a ...
(Stop The Drug War) Last week, the good citizens of Mississippi’s Tallahatchie County got a rude shock. The county’s top lawmen, Sheriff William Brewer, was at the courthouse, which was not unusual. This time, though, ...
Hundreds of inmates in various U.S. prisons have gone on strike, protesting what they’ve labeled “modern-day slavery.” Solidarity and Support In what may pass as the largest strike in recent history, the 2018 U.S. prison ...
The United Nations (UN) is launching its first ever review of marijuana’s classification under international drug treaties. The move comes just after the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) announced that cannabidiol (CBD) does not need to ...
Our inaugural episode of Good Cop/Bad Cop – because everyone knows there are good cops and bad cops but not everyone knows what’s good cop behavior and what’s bad cop behavior. On our first episode ...
The agency expects the company to sign the contract and get the approval from the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in two weeks. (CPI) A plane chartered by CoreCivic, the main prisons ...
A Detroit man, Darrell Siggers, was released from prison after 34 years of a wrongful conviction. 54-year-old Siggers was incarcerated at the Wayne County Jail for a 1984 murder he always maintained he never committed. ...
(Stop The Drug War) Much attention this year has been focused on marijuana legalization efforts in state legislatures, particularly in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states, but unless Albany and Annapolis and Trenton get their acts ...
In a lawsuit filed last week, a 76-year-old legally deaf and disabled women alleges officers violently arrested, kneed and handcuffed her to the point of passing out, all for jaywalking. The incident took place in July ...