The president cited the potential for “devastating, lasting psychological consequences” from the use of the isolation as punishment
Obama will ban solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons – CBS News
🙂
Category: American Injustice System,
Obama’s Op-Ed on solitary confinement in The Washington Post
Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement – The Washington Post
Right on!
I mean it took you long enough but right on, Mr. President.
Go’bama!
Kalief Browder and what we do and don’t know about solitary confinement in the U.S.
Yet despite solitary confinement’s dramatic impact on prisoners, we do not actually know how commonly it is used. To be more precise: Nobody knows exactly how many people are in solitary right now, as you are reading these words.
Sigh…
North Carolina voter-ID trial begins
Inside a federal courthouse here, attorneys for the Justice Department and the NAACP argued that the law passed by the Republican-led North Carolina General Assembly intentionally discriminates against African-Americans and Latinos who disproportionately lack one of the required forms of photo identification. “The state should be making it easier for people to engage in the fundamental right to vote, not harder.”
North Carolina voter-ID trial begins | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
hmmm
Judge Rules Texas Foster Care System Unconstitutional
In her Dec. 17 ruling against Texas’ foster care system, U.S. District Judge Janis Jack was scathing. For more than two decades, she wrote, the state has created a situation where “children have been shuttled throughout a system where rape, abuse, psychotropic medication, and instability are the norm.
Judge Rules Texas Foster Care System Unconstitutional — Impact Fund
Jesus
Dogs On The Inside
abused stray dogs and prison inmates working towards a second chance at a better life.
love this. there needs to be a whole lot more like this.
GA Prosecutor seeks charges for cop who shot Anthony Hill –
An Atlanta-area prosecutor said Thursday he plans to seek an indictment of a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed naked man last year.
Ga. prosecutor seeks charges for cop who shot Anthony Hill – NY Daily News
hmmmm
Civilian Representative to Join NYPD Counterterror Oversight Panel
As part of a landmark settlement of two lawsuits connected to the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim groups following the September 11th attacks, an independent civilian representative is being appointed to help watch over the department’s counterterrorism activity.
Civilian Representative to Join NYPD Counterterror Oversight Panel
hmmmm
FBI investigating another fatal shooting by Chicago police
The account the two Chicago police officers provided about the fatal shooting of Esau Castellanos came to a dramatic conclusion.
FBI investigating another fatal shooting by Chicago police – Chicago Tribune
sigh…
Scalia dismisses religious neutrality: ‘nothing wrong’ with state invoking God
Supreme court justice says there is ‘no place’ in country’s constitutional traditions for idea that state must be neutral between religion and its absence
Scalia dismisses religious neutrality: ‘nothing wrong’ with state invoking God | Law | The Guardian
Un-American shitbag
50 Years After the Moynihan Report, Examining the Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration – The Atlantic
Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history. Reconsidering Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on “The Negro Family,” 50 years later.
Sigh…
Officer Who Arrested Sandra Bland Charged For Lying In His Police Report
A Texas grand jury declined to bring charges against any of the jail staff for Bland’s death last month.
BREAKING: Officer Who Arrested Sandra Bland Charged For Lying In His Police Report | ThinkProgress
Texas is a bunch of spineless pussies with no honor or character. The only acceptable charges would have been murder.
The Massie Murder: The Most Infamous Legal Case in Hawaii’s History
“The Massie Case was more than a true-crime drama. It was a pivotal moment in the history of Hawaii, one that exposed a white supremacist social order (both locally and nationwide) and provided the seedbed for subsequent change throughout the islands,” says Stannard in his book, “Honor Killing.”
…A neglected gravestone in Kalihi, where a victim of vigilante justice is buried, is the only physical reminder of a trial that made national headlines.
Denby Fawcett: The Most Infamous Legal Case in Hawaii’s History – Civil Beat News
Jackson Councilman says’ Let’s throw rocks at police’
Jackson Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes wants to send a message to police from other jurisdictions who chase misdemeanor suspects through Jackson.He says he wants to send that message with rocks, bricks and bottles.
hmmmm
Emails Reveal Coordination Between Chicago Mayor’s Office & Police Dept. After Cop Killing
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago mayor’s office, police and the body that investigates police shootings closely coordinated their response in the months after a white officer fatally shot a black teenager in 2014, newly released emails revealed.
Newly released emails reveal coordination after teen’s death – Yahoo News
Fucking Douchebag!
Chicago mayor plots changes to police policy after deadly shootings
Chicago police will get new equipment and training to help them defuse tense situations and use the least amount of lethal force necessary, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday, seeking to soothe tensions in the city after weeks of protests over fatal police shootings.
Emanuel said at a news conference. “Just because you are trained that you can use force, doesn’t mean you should.”
Chicago mayor plots changes to police policy after deadly shootings – Yahoo News
About time, you shady, fucktard hack.
Chicago police fatally shoot 2 as force faces growing scrutiny
The Chicago Police Department is already under a federal civil rights investigation that will look into patterns of racial disparity in the use of force.
Chicago police fatally shoot 2 as force faces growing scrutiny – CSMonitor.com
Sigh….
Chicago police kill college student, woman
Family members said Bettie Jones — a mother of five — had hosted Christmas for relatives just hours before she was tragically killed.
Chicago police kill emotionally disturbed college student, 55-year-old woman – The Washington Post
Can’t we just hire cops to police the cops? Then they could kill the murderous ones with the mess, expense, and intrigue of a trial.
…Just like, the regular cops do, except these badge wearing gang members would only pick on their own kind.
Charges unlikely in killing of Tamir Rice by police
Nearly 400 days after a white police officer fatally shot a black 12-year-old carrying a pellet gun in an encounter captured on surveillance video, the boy’s disillusioned family believes it’s unlikely anyone will be indicted.
Family: Charges unlikely in killing of Tamir Rice by police – The Washington Post
Grrrrrrrr
When did douchebag killers become more important than unarmed, innocent children? When did we start to refuse that the police are capable of mistakes?
Lawsuits seek to abolish the bail bond system
Crystal Patterson didn’t have the cash or assets to post $150,000 bail and get out of jail after her arrest for assault in October.
Lawsuits seek to abolish country’s bail bond system | Miami Herald
hmmm
Hero security guard defuses hostage situation only to be fatally shot by late arriving cops
Hero security guard defuses hostage situation only to be fatally shot by late arriving cops
If cops faced serious, life impacting consequences for their mistakes, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make them.
SC cop wants the public to pay for his defense in his trial for the cold-blooded murder of a member of the public (Douche!)
A judge has ordered court officials to investigate whether a former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the killing of an unarmed driver is poor enough to receive taxpayer money to help with his defense.
South Carolina officer wants public money for murder defense – The Washington Post
Tough shit, fuckwad. Need a better lawyer than most of the people you harass? Have your fascist, lying union pay for it. Loser. Piggie. Loser.
Daniel Holtzclaw on suicide watch after conviction
Holtzclaw, who broke out in tears as the guilty verdicts were read aloud, has a detention officer sitting outside his jail cell.
Daniel Holtzclaw on suicide watch after conviction – NY Daily News
Former cop in prison? Don’t drop the soap, you teary little bitch.
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