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Publication • March 26, 2018
A Deeper Dive into Racial Disparities in Policing in Vermont, Stephanie Seguino and Nancy Brooks, 2018 A Deeper Dive into Racial Disparities in Policing in Vermont Stephanie Seguino Professor Department of Economics & Fellow, Gund Institute for the Environment University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05401 stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu and Nancy Brooks Visiting …
Kim v. County of Santa Clara, CA, Amended Complaint, Employment Discrimination - Race, 2018 1 Seth Wiener (California State Bar No. 203747) LAW OFFICES OF SETH W. WIENER 2 609 Karina Court San Ramon, CA 94582 3 Telephone: (925) 487-5607 Email: seth@sethwienerlaw.com 4 Attorneys for Plaintiff 5 KYUNG KIM 6 …
Brief • February 27, 2018
Roberts v. Wyoming, WY, Appeal, Peremptory Challenge-Race, 2018 IN THE SUPREME COURT, STATE OF WYOMING 2018 WY 23 OCTOBER TERM, A.D. 2017 February 27, 2018 BRANDON D. ROBERTS, Appellant (Defendant), v. S-17-0112 THE STATE OF WYOMING, Appellee (Plaintiff). Appeal from the District Court of Laramie County The Honorable Catherine R. …
Corral v. CoreCivic, NM, Settlement, Employment Discrimination, 2018 SEVRNTH .JUDICTALDISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF TORRANCE STATE OF NEW MEXICO JOSEPH CORRAL, Plnlntiff, v. No. D-722-CV-2016-00084 CORRECTIONSCORPORATIONOF AMERICA(CorcClvlc of Tennessee, LLC), n foreigncorp?rntlon, Defendnnt. SETTLRMENT AGREEMENT ANDGENERAL RELEASE WHEREAS,JosephCorral (hereinafterreferredlo as 11Plaintifr1), hav.ingtiled a Complaint in the SeventhJudicinlDistrictCourt, State ofNcw MexicoentitledJqscoh Corralv. …
Brief • February 21, 2018
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Norfolk v. Geo Group, PA, Second Amended Complaint, Racial Discrimination, 2018 Case 3:17-cv-00204-KRG Document 18 Filed 02/21/18 Page 1 of 15 Case 3:17-cv-00204-KRG Document 18 Filed 02/21/18 Page 2 of 15 Case 3:17-cv-00204-KRG Document 18 Filed 02/21/18 Page 3 of 15 Case 3:17-cv-00204-KRG Document 18 Filed 02/21/18 Page 4 of …
Bread for the World Institute - Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger, 2018 BRIEFING PAPER NUMBER 35, FEBRUARY 2018 Mass Incarceration: A Major Cause of Hunger by Marlysa D. Gamblin Bread for the World Institute provides policy analysis on hunger and poverty, as well as strategies to end it. …
Prison Broke: The Missouri Department of Corrections Can’t Escape its Own Worst Habits by Karen Dillon by Karen Dillon, The Pitch Each day, as she prepared herself to work another shift at the Missouri Department of Corrections prison, Lashonda Reid knew to expect one thing. It would be bad. Reid …
State of Louisiana v. Broussard, LA, Opinion, Backstrike of Potential Juror, 2018 Supreme Court of Louisiana FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE #005 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA The Opinions handed down on the 30th day of January, 2018, are as follows: PER CURIAM: 2016-K -1502 STATE OF …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
New York Times Reveals Racial Bias Rampant in Upstate New York Prisons by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton In December 2016, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo ordered an official probe into allegations of racial bias by guards in the state’s prison system. The governor’s announcement came shortly after the New York …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
National Registry of Exonerations Report: Blacks Suffer More False Convictions by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna On March 7, 2017, the National Registry of Exonerations published a report that found African-Americans are much more likely than whites to be wrongfully convicted and spend more time in prison before being exonerated. …
Article • January 3, 2018
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Texas Prison Reform Model Maintains Mass Incarceration and Racial Disparity by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2007, Texas asked the Justice Center of the Council of State Governments to recommend ways it could reduce incarceration and criminal justice expenditures, then enacted most of the recommendations. This package of reforms …
$15.000 Settles Multiple Civil Rights Complaints by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled multiple civil rights lawsuits brought by prisoner David Y. Merritt in March 2002. Merritt, an imprisoned government informant, filed several lawsuits against the Bureau of Prisons in federal court between 1995 and 2001. …
BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Robert T. Aranda, an "inmate systems officer" (prison guard), was a very litigious Bureau of Prisons employee. Between 1996 and 1998, while working at multiple BOP facilities in several capacities, Aranda filed at least six …
Article • December 7, 2017
$5,000 to Conn. Prisoner in Retaliation Lawsuit by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On April 24, 2014, a Connecticut state prisoner and the Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to settle a claim brought by the prisoner which alleged that he was terminated from his prison job after he filed …
Article • December 7, 2017
Self-Serving Affidavits Admissible in Discrimination Suit by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a federal district court's summary judgment granted to Indiana's Whitley County Sheriff's Office in a racial discrimination suit. The court found that the district court erroneously applied the "common actor" provision to grant summary judgment, and …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Most Black “Neighborhoods” in Wisconsin are Actually Jails, Prisons by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A 17-year-old has made a startling discovery about Wisconsin: more than half of the state’s black “neighborhoods” are actually jails. The young researcher, Lew Blank, used the Weldon Cooper Center’s Racial Dot Map and Google …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Louisiana Death Sentence Reversed, Charges Dismissed, Lawsuit Filed by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Following the reversal of his homicide conviction by the Louisiana Supreme Court in November 2016, death row prisoner Rodricus Crawford, 29, was released on $50,000 bond after serving three years in prison. A new prosecutor …
Study Indicates Racial Bias Skews Criminality Risk Assessment Tool by The use of software to predict future criminality is increasing in popularity. However, a study by ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit news agency that produces investigative journalism, found that prediction programs are racially skewed. Risk assessments are gaining traction in courtrooms …
Brief • November 17, 2017
Hancock v. Cape, GA, Order, Excessive Force, Racial Discrimination, 2017 Case: 15-14284 Date Filed: 11/17/2017 Page: 1 of 18 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 15-14284 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 2:14-cv-00202-WCO YASUND Q. HANCOCK, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus BRENT CAPE, Defendant - …
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