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Showing posts with label criminal justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criminal justice. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Landry plans to reopen a Louisiana youth prison closed a decade ago

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  In just a matter of months, Gov. Jeff Landry plans to reopen a Baton Rouge-area youth prison  shuttered a little over a decade ago  with s...

Fires of desperation at Red Onion are a call for dignity and justice

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 By Steven Mangual At Red Onion State Prison, one of two supermax prisons in Virginia, at  least 12 Black men last year set their own bodies...

Tennessee levied $44.78 million in penalties against private prison operator in three years

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 By Sam Stockard Tennessee’s Department of Correction is requesting a $6.8 million contract increase for its private prison operator despite...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Bill to limit the crimes for which juveniles could be charged as adults sparks debate

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By William J. Ford Criminal justice advocates welcomed a Senate bill that would sharply reduce the number of crimes for which a juvenile cou...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Police drones are flying over Maryland. Will state lawmakers regulate them?

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 By Capital News Service On an afternoon in mid-January, a Montgomery County police drone tracked a shoplifting suspect as he made his way f...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Ohio families who lost loved ones after police incidents criticize new fees for body cam footage

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By Nick Evans  Former Columbus, Ohio police officer Adam Coy shot and killed Andre Hill shortly before Christmas in 2020. Last November Coy ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Prison abuse, deaths and escapes prompt calls for more oversight

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 By Amanda Hernandez Rampant sexual abuse  by guards at women’s prisons in California.  An inmate suicide  that went unnoticed for 18 hours ...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Baltimore Media ‘Create a False Impression That Youth Are Responsible for a Lot of Very Dangerous Crime’: .

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By Janine Jackson  Janine Jackson interviewed the Sentencing Project’s Richard Mendel about coverage of youth crime for the  December 20, 20...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Report: Florida imposed seven new death sentences in 2024, most in the nation

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By Christine Sexton An  annual report  put together by a national group that tracks the death penalty says Florida led the nation this year ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Appeals court turns down ACLU’s request to interview SC inmates

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 By Skylar Laird COLUMBIA — The state’s prison system does not have to allow interviews with inmates, a federal appeals court decided,  echo...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Federal judge hears arguments on Louisiana’s 25-foot police buffer law

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 By Drew Costley A federal judge in Baton Rouge heard arguments from news organizations and the state of Louisiana on Wednesday (Dec. 11) on...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Prison telecom companies, reform advocates debate lower phone fees for incarcerated people

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 By Bobbi-Jeanne Misack  The state’s utilities regulator this week heard arguments on whether to adopt lower in-custody phone call rates to ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

U.S. appellate court temporarily allows enforcement of DeSantis’ ‘Anti-Riot’ law

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By Jackie Llanos A federal appellate court is temporarily allowing Florida to enforce the 2021 state law imposing harsher penalties for prot...

Crime is down, FBI says, but politicians still choose statistics to fit their narratives

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 By Amanda Hernandez Violent crime and property crime in the United States dropped in 2023, continuing a downward trend following higher rat...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Marcellus Williams executed after U.S. Supreme Court rejects final appeal

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 By Rudi Keller Just a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, Missouri officials executed Marcellus Williams Tues...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Federal judge refuses to halt Friday’s execution in SC

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By Sklar Laird The Wednesday order came as part of a new lawsuit about a state secrecy law COLUMBIA — A federal judge said Wednesday she wil...

Supreme Court 5-4 decision paves way for Willie Jerome Manning’s execution

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By Mina Corpuz  Willie Jerome Manning, sentenced to death for the murder of two Mississippi State University students 30 years ago,  “has ha...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Thousands in California’s jails have the right to vote — but here’s why many won’t

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By  Sameea Kamal  Ronald Latney used to believe his vote didn’t matter. But after returning to jail this year, he realized the difference it...
Friday, September 13, 2024

SC Supreme Court will not halt upcoming execution; activists call for clemency

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By  Sklar Laird COLUMBIA — The state Supreme Court will not halt the state’s first execution in 13 years over an inmate’s claims of new evid...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

State lawmakers dig into violent conditions in Georgia prisons, Fulton jail

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By Stanley Dunlap Georgia’s state prisons and Fulton County’s jail took center stage Friday before legislative committees tasked with making...