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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Maryland Targets Highest-in-Nation Racial Incarceration Gap by Black Marylanders make up 30% of the state’s population but 71% of those in its prisons, the nation’s highest racial incarceration gap. To address that imbalance, state Attorney General Anthony G. Brown (D) helped launch the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative (MEJC) in October …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
U.S. Navy Exonerates Wrongly Convicted Black WWII Sailors by The United States Navy exonerated 256 former prisoners on July 17, 2024, all of them Black sailors convicted of refusing to return to work after a deadly 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago naval weapons station in San Francisco. On the …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Eleventh Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Georgia Jailers Who Housed White Detainee With Black Cellmate Held for Racially Motivated Attack by On January 5, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court’s finding that defendant guards and a nurse at Georgia’s Muscogee County Jail …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
COVID-19 Increased Racial Disparities in Prisons and Jails by As the COVID-19 pandemic spread its cloud of death and misery in 2020, the one silver lining was a dip in the number of Americans incarcerated, which decreased by 17% – the fastest drop in history. However, the same racial disparities …
Publication • 2022
State of NY OIG -Racial Disparities in the Admin of Discipline in NY State Prisons-Nov. 2022 State of New York Offices of the Inspector General Racial Disparities in the Administration of Discipline in New York State Prisons November 2022 Lucy Lang Inspector General EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The myriad manifestations of systemic …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Settlement Reached to Protect Hawaii Prisoners from COVID-19 by David Reutter Just in Time for the ‘Omicron Winter’ by David M. Reutter On November 10, 2021, one day before first detection of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, a federal district court in Hawaii approved a settlement …
Federal Jury Awards $1.5 Million to Black, Transgender Woman Falsely Arrested for Trafficking Cocaine by Ju’Zema Goldring was awarded $1.5 million by a federal grand jury for false arrest. Goldring, who identifies as a Black, transgender woman, said that she was profiled and arrested by two Atlanta Police Department officers …
Publication • 2021
Struggle for Power - the Ongoing Persecution of Black Movement by the US Government, 2021 STRU R E W O P R O F E L GG LACK B F ON O I T ENT U M C N E VER ERS O P G G . U.S GOIN E …
Andre Hill - Columbus City Council Settlement Approval 2021 City of Columbus Office of City Clerk 90 West Broad Street Columbus OH 43215-9015 columbuscitycouncil.org Legislation Details (With Text) File #: 1267-2021 Version: 1 Type: Ordinance Status: Passed File created: 5/14/2021 In control: Criminal Justice & Judiciary Committee On agenda: 5/17/2021 …
Publication • 2020
ACLU Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform, 2020 •• • . ' •• . : ACLU RESEARCH REPORT A Tale of Two Countries Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform ACLU RESEARCH REPORT A Tale of Two Countries Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of …
Williams v. City of Long Beach, CA, Third Amended Complaint, Racial Profiling and False Arrest, 2019 1 2 3 4 LISA HOLDER (State Bar No. 212628) LAW OFFICE OF LISA HOLDER lisaholder@yahoo.com P.O. Box 65694 Los Angeles, California 90065 Telephone: (323) 683-6610 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 …
Publication • March 7, 2017
Race and Wrongful Convictions, National Registry of Exonerations, March 2017 RACE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES Samuel R. Gross, Senior Editor, srgross@umich.edu Maurice Possley, Senior Researcher Klara Stephens, Research Fellow National Registry of Exonerations March 7, 2017 NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS NEWKIRK CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY UNIVERSITY …
Publication • October 1, 2016
Racism in the U.S. Criminal Justice System - Institutionalized Genocide, ACS, 2016 Issue Brief October 2016 Racism in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: Institutionalized Genocide? Nkechi Taifa* David Simon, creator of the popular HBO series The Wire and commentator in director Eugene Jarecki’s documentary The House I Live In, once …
K.L. V. Fisher, NM, Complaint, Excessive Force and False Arrest, 2015 FILED IN MY OFFICE DISTRICT COURT CLERK 11/19/201512:49:11 PM James A. Noel Catherine Chavez STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF BERNALILLO SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT K.L., and D.G., on behalf of her minor child, A.F., Plaintiffs, v. No. O-202-CV-2015-08794 …
Williams v. City of Lafayette, CA, Settlement, Racial Profiling, 2012
Williams v. City of Lafayette, CA, Complaint, Racial Profiling, 2011 I I I I C e4:ll-cv-03873-DMR Documentl Filed0S/08/11 Pagel of g ~ 1 2 3 4 6 ....J JOHN L. BURRIS. ESQ. CS8#69888 LAW OFFICES OF JOHN L. BURRIS Airport Corporate Centre 767·7 Oakport Street. Suite 1120 Oakland. CA 94621-1939 …