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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 …
Oregon Holds BLM Protestor in Solitary Confinement for 250 Days by On November 29, 2024, Malik Muhammad, 25, ended a nine-day hunger strike protesting nearly 250 days that he was held in solitary confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary. His time in solitary exceeded the state Department of Corrections’ (DOC) …
Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Dept., NY, Presentation on Excited Delirium, 2024 Monroe County Office of Mental Health & Rochester Police Department Psychological behaviors • Paranoia • Delusional • Agitation • Cannot follow commands • Emotional changes • Disoriented • Hallucinations • Looks like \\just snapped" …
Publication • September 26, 2023
International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement-Sept 2023 A/HRC/54/CRP.7 26 September 2023 English only Human Rights Council Fifty-fourth session International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement Visit to the United States of …
Civilian Oversight Commision Special Counsel-Deputy Gangs and Deputy Cliques in the LA Sheriff's Dept-Feb. 2023 REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL TO SHERIFF CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT COMMISSION REGARDING DEPUTY GANGS AND DEPUTY CLIQUES IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT February 2023 Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission COMMISSIONERS Sean Kennedy, Chair …
$98,000 Paid by BOP to Immigrant Detainees Racially Profiled as Terrorists in New York City Lockup by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss An out-of-court settlement between the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and a group of former immigrant detainees was made public on July 5, 2022. The plaintiffs, all …
Article • June 6, 2022
Filed under: Internet, Racial Profiling
New York Prison Guard Suspended After “Despicable” Facebook Post Mocking Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims by Jo Ellen Nott By Jo Ellen Nott Gregory C. Foster II, 46, a guard at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility, was suspended without pay on May 18, 2022, after posting a meme on Facebook that …
After 49 Years in Prison for a Murder in Which He Didn’t Pull the Trigger, Former Black Liberation Army Member Sundiata Acoli Wins Parole by Chuck Sharman On May 10, 2022, the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed a state parole board decision and granted release to Sundiata Acoli, whose involvement …
Publication • August 15, 2021
Filed under: Racial Profiling
Investigation of the Aurora Police Department and Aurora Fire Rescue, 2021 Investigation of the Aurora Police Department and Aurora Fire Rescue September 15, 2021 Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary .................................................................................................................. 1 2. Scope of Investigation and Methodology ............................................................................. 4 3. 2.1. Basis for Investigative Authority and Reason for Investigation …
Publication • August 9, 2021
Struggle-For-Power-The-Ongoing-Persecution-of-Black-Movement-by-the-U.S.-Government 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 N H T O THE T BY N E M E MOV In the …
Publication • 2021
The Sentencing Project, Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons, 2021 The Color of Justice Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons THE SENTENCING - - PROJECT RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY FOR REFORM THE SENTENCING - - PROJECT RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY FOR REFORM For more information, contact: The Sentencing Project 1705 …
New Federalism and Civil Rights Enforcement, 2021 Copyright 2021 by Alexander Reinert, Joanna C. Schwartz & James E. Pfander Printed in U.S.A. Vol. 116, No. 3 NEW FEDERALISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT Alexander Reinert, Joanna C. Schwartz & James E. Pfander ABSTRACT—Calls for change to the infrastructure of civil rights …
New Details Emerge on Senseless Death in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jail by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Recent public outrage over the needless killings of Black men at the hands of police has led to greater scrutiny of the many instances in which people of color die either while being …
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 …
Article • April 23, 2018
2 Georgia officers forced out over racist Facebook posts targeting black motorists by David Reutter By David Reutter Two white Georgia law enforcement officers were forced out of their positions after racist and sexist remarks they exchanged on Facebook were uncovered.             The officers were McIntosh County Sheriff deputies when …
Publication • April 15, 2018
The Consensus Myth in Criminal Justice Reform, Benjamin Levin, 2018 Draft (4/15/18) – Please do not cite or circulate without permission THE CONSENSUS MYTH IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM Benjamin Levin* (forthcoming Michigan Law Review) It has become popular to identify a “consensus” on criminal justice reform, but how deep is …
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 …
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018 NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN POLICE USE OF FORCE Roland G. Fryer, Jr Working Paper 22399 http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA …
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 …
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