Why Did LA County Inmate Unique Moore Die? Lawsuit, Investigation Raise New...
Photo via justicenotjails.org Before breakfast on November 8, 2014 in the women's jail in Los Angeles County, a popular inmate named Unique Moore started coughing and complained that she couldn't...
View ArticleA Look at the Prisoner Transport System
With the recent spate of prison bus crashes, it's time to look into the operating and safety methods being employed when prisoners are in transit. In January, a prison bus slid off a slick Texas...
View ArticleSeriously ill detainee was shackled hours before he died
Home Office report into death of man handcuffed during surgery raises important questions about vulnerable detainees’ care...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days
The scriptwriter on Hitchcock's last, unfinished film, David Freeman had a front row seat as the aging, pain-wracked director raged against the dying of the light. It's hard to imagine that in his...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleTorture, Slow Death in Egypt Junta's Aqrab Prison (Freedom and Justice Party)
(Source: Freedom and Justice Party) 'Tombs for the living!' This is the most 'moderate' description of Aqrab (Scorpion) Prison cells. Unlike humans who die the simple one death, detainees in this...
View ArticleHRW Letter to UN Committee against Torture on Pre-Sessional Review of China...
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) February 12, 2015 Members of the United Nations Committee against Torture Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201...
View ArticleReligious Exemptions and Third-Party Harms (The Federalist Society for Law...
(Source: The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies) Federalist Society Review, Volume 17, Issue 3 Note from the Editor: This article discusses the effect that third-party harms should...
View ArticleIn the Middle of an Electoral Revolution, Scalia Leaves the Plutocracy One...
The salutary rule of private life that one should not speak poorly of the recently departed does not properly apply to public persons who we know only through their public deeds. When they choose to...
View ArticleIllinois joins state bans on judges routinely shackling kids
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court announced Thursday that it has adopted rule changes banning the automatic shackling of child suspects in state courtrooms, a move that comes in the wake of...
View ArticleFlorida Murder Suspect Escaped A Packed Courtroom, Leaving Behind Shackles...
Imagine if a dangerous murder suspect fled a packed courtroom, changed his clothes, and left behind the prison jumpsuit and shackles, and now, is nowhere to be found. That is exactly what happened in...
View ArticleL.A. County jail inmates were handcuffed to a wall for hours on 'potty watch'
One jail inmate, clad only in boxer shorts and socks, was handcuffed to a wall for up to 11 hours. Another was cuffed to the wall for as many as eight or nine hours, causing bleeding and severe pain to...
View ArticlePrivate Prisons Rule With Little Oversight on America’s Border
To handle the massive number of immigrants sentenced to prison for re-entering the country, private prisons have sprung up from Arizona to Texas, with little oversight in terms of sanitation and...
View ArticleSlipshod security in Broward Courthouse
The story of how a murder suspect escaped from the Broward County Courthouse and left local law-enforcement officers looking like the Keystone Kops is one of those incredible, only-in-South-Florida...
View ArticleMother lets son drive golf cart at resort, gets jailed for child abuse
On the second day of her dream vacation on exclusive Bald Head Island, Julie Mall went with her family to the beach to catch the sunset. Her 11-year-old son asked to drive the golf cart back to their...
View ArticleThe trials of Babar Ahmad: from jihad in Bosnia to a US prison via Met brutality
In his first interview since he tasted freedom after 12 years behind bars, Ahmad tells how he became the longest-serving UK prisoner to be detained without charge...
View ArticleBad lieutenant: American police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantánamo
Exclusive: At the notorious wartime prison, Richard Zuley oversaw a shocking military interrogation that has become a permanent stain on his country. Part one of a Guardian investigation reveals he...
View ArticleInside Gitmo: America's Shame
The 9/11 trial will, if it happens at all, take place on a patch of dust in the Caribbean, within a high-security facility you can enter only with a notebook and pen (and just one pen), and observe...
View ArticleMichigan courthouse shooter was handcuffed in front
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan sheriff pledged Tuesday to review his department's guidelines for transporting suspects charged with violent crimes after an inmate who was cuffed in front rather...
View ArticleSheriff: Inmate who killed 2 at courthouse cuffed in front
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A Michigan sheriff pledged Tuesday to review his department's guidelines for transporting suspects charged with violent crimes after an inmate who was cuffed in front rather than...
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