Systemic Indifference
Summary On April 6, 2015, Raul Ernesto Morales-Ramos, a 44-year-old citizen of El Salvador, died at Palmdale Regional Medical Center in Palmdale, California, of organ failure, with signs of widespread...
View Article“Bound by Brotherhood”
Summary This is what I have to say about the wounds on the body of the said accused. Since he was a hard core criminal, he refused to give any information. It was essential to get that information from...
View Article“Do You See How Much I’m Suffering Here?”
Summary Do you see how much I’m suffering here? Do you think anyone deserves to be punished like this? … Sometimes I get anxious. … I thought about killing myself once, but then I regretted it and told...
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Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
View Article“We Are in Tombs”
Summary “It was designed so that those who go in don’t come out again unless dead. It was designed for political prisoners.” –Ibrahim Abd al-Ghaffar, former warden, during a television interview in...
View ArticleFor Decades, Harris County’s Bail System Trapped the Poor. Is that Finally...
A A Facebook- Twitter - More shares recommend reddit email - Print Article In the general-population jail pod where 59-year-old Gilbert Cruz was incarcerated for 70 days, there was a chess set. He...
View Article“Not in it for Justice”
Summary On the night of November 2, 2015, Maria Soto’s 18-year-old son Daniel went out with friends and did not come home. At 1:30 p.m. the next day, Maria finally got a call: Daniel had been stabbed...
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 ArticleOnline and On All Fronts
Summary Since 2012, the Russian authorities have intensified a crackdown on freedom of expression, selectively casting certain kinds of criticism of the government as threats to state security and...
View ArticleMontana's rule on campaign contribution limits is headed back to court
A federal appeals court Tuesday overturned a 2012 ruling that declared Montana's restrictions on state campaign contributions unconstitutional.lRelated CALIFORNIAGroup says California immigration...
View ArticleLawsuit: Kenton County deputy sheriff shackled two elementary students who...
A federal lawsuit filed in Northern Kentucky Monday alleges that a Kenton County deputy sheriff shackled two elementary school children who have disabilities, causing them pain and trauma. A school...
View ArticleThatcher's juvenile justice reform bill passes unanimously
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jonathan Lockwood Communications Director 971-645-2140 Jonathan.Lockwood@OregonLegislature.gov Thatcher's juvenile justice reform bill passes unanimously SALEM, Ore.-Today, the...
View ArticleNY police handcuff, shackle ‘combative five-year-old’
The idea that police officers should use handcuffs and leg shackles to control an unruly individual is hardly unusual in the U.S., where fondness for the use of metal restraints runs through the...
View ArticleSheriff's deputy shackled elementary school students who had disabilities,...
A Kentucky deputy sheriff restrained two elementary school children with disabilities using handcuffs, shackling their arms behind their backs and causing them pain and emotional trauma, a new federal...
View ArticleSheriff defends officer who shackled school children
A Kentucky sheriff is standing behind a deputy officer who restrained two elementary school children with disabilities using handcuffs last fall, saying he did nothing wrong. "Covington Schools'...
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 ArticleAccused killer uncuffed to communicate with lawyers
Daniel French, the Kentucky man accused of killing an 87-year-old Monroe woman, was escorted into court Tuesday restrained by shackles, handcuffs and a belly band. But his right hand was freed after a...
View ArticleNo plans to change procedures after Youngstown murder suspect jumped to...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The Mahoning County Sheriff's Office currently has no plans to change its prisoner transport procedures after a man accused of rape and three killings jumped to his death from a...
View ArticleThreats loom over gang trial; U.S. marshals want Hobos shackled
Security threats looming over an impending street-gang trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse have prompted the U.S. Marshals to ask a judge to take the rare step of shackling alleged gang members...
View ArticleFreddie Gray officer acquitted on all charges in custody death case
A police officer has been acquitted of assault and other charges in the arrest of Freddie Gray, who died in custody in Baltimore. The acquittal is a serious blow to prosecutors attempting to hold...
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