District court judge sued by six residents he’s sent to jail on the grounds that they weren’t paying off their debts. Six Arkansas residents have sued Judge Mark Derrick for jailing them due to inability ...
About 3,400 prison inmates trained in firefighting situations are currently deployed to put out the ongoing, raging California wildfires, but they are paid just $2 per day. They get an additional $1 per hour when ...
Activists of the Occupy movement push Philadelphia mayor to end Preliminary Arrest Reporting Service Agreement with ICE; protesters seek to tackle the stop-and-frisk program next. The occupation of City Hall since protesters moved the encampment ...
A Mexican journalist and his son risk deportation due to his criticism of the U.S. government’s immigration policy. Mexican journalist, Emilio Gutierrez-Soto, and his son, Oscar, are currently facing serious ordeals at the hands of ...
Any revenue formally generated from the civil asset forfeiture program in Albuquerque, New Mexico is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge James O. Browning ruled civil asset forfeiture violates residents’ rights to ...
The allegations against the Southwest Key youth care worker are the latest in a series of serious accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters. This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual ...
(StoptheDrugWar.org) Even as he defended federal marijuana prohibition, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last Thursday conceded that states have the right to pass their own marijuana laws. Sessions, an avowed foe of marijuana legalization, has ...
Eight U.S. states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for allowing 3D-printed gun designs to be sold freely on the internet. The states have also gone ahead to file an injunction requesting that ...
Fifteen men each filed separate federal lawsuits last Friday alleging they were wrongfully convicted and framed for various criminal offenses by former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and the Chicago PD. The corruption scandal surrounding ...
(FEE.org, by Stewart Jones) June 15th, 2018, marked the 803 anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a monumental moment for the advancement of liberty. Due process and trial by jury remain to be some of ...
A video of blatant racism against a Canadian couple in a Walmart parking lot is stunning in its brutality. The video of the attack was shared on YouTube by Patryk Laszczuk and shows a white ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reunited around 1,442 of the 2,551 separated migrant children with their parents in immigration detention by the July 26 deadline, as mandated by a federal judge in ...
GEO Group is America’s largest private prison company with 141 prison facilities across the U.S. but a new report from MapLight in conjunction with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting reveals the company may have violated ...
The FBI wants to know what your tattoos mean. The federal security agency is trying to identify the meanings of tattoos and how the tattoos “map out people’s relationships and identify their beliefs” as the ...
Hawaii’s claim that the right to bear firearms is limited to guns kept at home has been ruled unconstitutional. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overruled in a two to one decision a ...
A public approval tool designed to measure police performance at the local and state levels was recently launched in New York. Sentiment Meter, as it is called, is developed by Brooklyn-based startup Elucd, and after ...
(PANDAUnite.org, by Jason Casella) People Against the NDAA (PANDA) and our truly non-partisan coalition in South Carolina are pleased to announce our latest civil rights victory. Laurens County, SC has passed the Restoring Constitutional Governance Resolution ...
Laquanda “Faye” Jacobs was released from prison last Tuesday after 26 years of wrongful incarceration in Arkansas. Jacobs was sentenced to life without parole at the age of 16 for capital murder, but the Innocence ...
(Drug Reporter) Getting caught growing a few pot plants in Pennsylvania could lead to a criminal charge and a likely sentence of probation, but for a Lehigh Valley man, it was a death sentence. This ...
A 41-year-old man who was sentenced at the age of 17 for the 1993 shooting of his friend has been released from prison after 24 years of a wrongful conviction. Shane Williams was discharged and ...
Police and protesters in Chicago engaged in a vicious clash with each other after police shot and killed a black man on Saturday, with some protesters flinging bottles filled with urine at the officers. The ...
(FactCheck.org, by Lori Robertson) With the controversy over family separations, much of the political rhetoric in recent weeks has focused on illegal immigration. We thought it would be helpful to take a step back and look ...
Amanda Nguyen, a sexual assault survivor and just 26-years-old has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination is in recognition of her efforts at drafting and campaigning for the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Bill of Rights. ...
The Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis is protesting Trump’s immigration policies in an innovative way. They placed the statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a chain-link fence outside the church building. The dean ...
A report from The Appeal revealed that inmates in Florida are dying at record rates. With a total of 97,794 prisoners in Florida state custody, 428 inmates died in 2017 and as at June 2018, ...
A 59-year-old man who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he did not commit was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Gerald Manning was 17 when he was sentenced for the rape ...
A young New Yorker, Mariah Charles, was stopped by police on her way to school and violently arrested for not carrying an ID. Her case is now in court, and Charles is opting to go ...
Many Americans support stricter regulations with regard to gun ownership, but what if the issue is not as simple as some may think? What if guns were thought of as a tool for empowerment ...
Johnny Edward Tall Bear, a member of the Iowa Nation tribe, has been exonerated by DNA evidence after spending 26 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit – thanks to DNA evidence and help ...
A homeless man identified as Kevin Straw was beaten aggressively during an arrest by Oregon law enforcement on Monday, prompting A.C.L.U. Oregon to condemn officer behavior and call for an incident investigation. Four Marion County ...
A few days back, we reported that Kim Kardashian visited President Donald Trump to ask for a pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, the 63-year-old grandmother incarcerated for drug dealing. Kardashian’s appeal worked because Ms. Johnson ...
A Georgia police officer has been fired after video footage showed that he ran over a fleeing suspect with his police cruiser. Officer Taylor Saulters and Officer Hunter Blackmon were patrolling Athens-Clarke County on Friday ...
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian made headlines for prison reform this week. In fact, she comes up with every search for “prison reform” on the internet, and media outlets are analyzing her new assumed role ...
(ANTIMEDIA, by James Holbrooks) Texas — Last December, Rakem Balogun and his 15-year-old son were startled awake when a team of heavily armed FBI agents stormed into their apartment in Dallas, Texas. Wearing nothing but their underwear, Balogun and ...
The US Justice Department is funneling $40 million into local police departments to increase rape kit testing and fund the expansion of a national violent crimes database. Through the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), the ...
The two black men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks on April 12 have reached a settlement with the city for a symbolic one dollar each. Their settlement, announced Wednesday, also included a pledge from city ...
Rapper Meek Mill said Wednesday that now that he’s out of prison, a lot of people facing similar battles with the criminal justice system are depending on him to shed light on their plight. “I got ...
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January 2017 instructing immigration officers to detain and arrest any and all undocumented immigrants in the United States. This order has had far-reaching and disastrous effects for ...
Since last September, investigative news site MuckRock has been tracking every fusion center in the country run by Homeland Security, along with their investigations into political clashes between anti-fascist group Antifa and white supremacist groups. Muckrock ...
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and while there are many disturbing factors that have contributed to this trend, one of the least-discussed is the complex system of parole and ...
“People’s human rights do not end when they enter the walls of a prison.” (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) Ending a practice described by medical experts as “barbaric,” the director of North Carolina’s state prisons said ...
Rapper Meek Mill, real name Robert Rihmeek Williams, famous for songs including “Dreams and Nightmares” and chart-topping hits such as “Young & Gettin’ It,” is currently serving a two to four year prison sentence for ...
An article from The Vera Institute of Justice says an increasing number of states are working to pass legislation to restore felon voting rights. Florida alone could restore voting rights for over one million people ...
Worshippers at a Pennsylvania Church on Wednesday clutched AR-15 rifles and drank wine in the final part of a three part couple’s blessing ceremony. Brides wearing white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of ...
Bresha Meadows, a sixteen year old domestic violence survivor, was released from juvenile detention after spending ten months in jail for killing her abusive father. After serving her time, for the involuntary murder of her ...
A body camera video has just been released which shines a new light on the Tennessee police shooting of an unarmed motorist. Last April, police in Tennessee attempted to pull over Michael Dial for driving ...
Nearly 90 women who allege that they were sexually assaulted by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar (54) plan to speak out about the abuse during a four-day sentencing hearing that started on Tuesday. Nassar ...