New information surfaces following an autopsy.
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New information surfaces following an autopsy.
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I was sentenced in 1998 to 40 years in prison for selling marijuana. Even as it is decriminalized, I remain behind bars.
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People shouldn't be punished for revealing the secrets of the government, governments should be punished for keeping secrets from the people.
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New public health research on women’s prisons exposes medical neglect, sexual violence and inhumane living conditions.
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By Kevin Cooper / Original to ScheerPost As a man of African American descent who has studied and learned the truth about American history— the real truth about the real history of this country—I have learned about the death penalty—how it was and continues to be used and misused on poor and Black people especially. […]
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Policing is neither reformable nor redeemable.
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Prisoners in Washington State are renewing their fight to democratize education amid new restrictions threatening their decade-old program.
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By Renuka Rayasam/ Kaiser Health News In 2011, Jeffrey Motts was executed in South Carolina. More than a decade later, the state hasn’t carried out another execution because officials have struggled to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injection. Now, to resume executions, lawmakers are debating a bill that would further shroud the state’s lethal injection […]
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Most states have at least considered initiatives to do away with, or to reduce the use of, isolation in their prison systems, according to the latest major report on the subject. But there’s bad news too.
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By Ryan Fatica and Chris Schiano / Unicorn Riot Atlanta, GA — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with several other law enforcement agencies, charged 23 more people with ‘domestic terrorism’ for their alleged involvement in the ongoing effort to stop ‘Cop City’ and to defend the Weelaunee Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County southeast […]
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