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Post Views: 1,060 Article by: KATIE PARK, KERI BLAKINGER and CLAUDIA LAUER The Marshall Project Derrick Johnson had a makeshift mask. He had the spray bottle of bleach and extra soap that corrections officers provided. But he still spent every day crammed in a unit with 63 other men in a Florida prison, crowding into hallways […]
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Post Views: 1,564 Source: Equal Justice Initiative A new study from researchers at Northwestern University and the World Bank found that millions of Covid-19 cases and tens of thousands of deaths could have been prevented by reducing jail populations. The U.S. has long had the world’s highest incarceration rate. It has also reported more Covid-19 […]
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Post Views: 815 Mohamed Noor gunned down Justine Ruszczyk Damond on July 15, 2017. Source: David K. Li Article: NBC News A judge on Thursday sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor to 57 months behind bars, the maximum penalty possible, for fatally shooting a 911 caller in 2017. Noor had been convicted of third-degree murder for the […]
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Post Views: 1,905 Officers’ groups say 84-year-old Sundiata Acoli, convicted of murder of New Jersey state trooper, poses no threat to public safety Source: Ed Pilkington. The Guardian. A coalition of current and retired Black police officers is calling for the release on parole of Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther member who has been […]
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Post Views: 1,025 Decarceration advocates urge lawmakers to consider sentencing reform instead as prisons have seen high rates of Covid outbreaks The southern US state of Alabama, which has the highest death rate from Covid-19 in America, is planning to use Covid relief funds to help construct three large prisons and renovate several others. State lawmakers […]
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Post Views: 898 FBI asked to investigate Dallas County Jail Inmate Trust Fund More than $600,000 in Dallas County Jail inmates’ commissary funds may have been stolen and the FBI has been asked to figure out who is responsible. The issue is money that inmates place in accounts at the county jail for purchase of […]
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