Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice (www.propublica.org)
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Kids complained for years about sexually abusive probation officers. Some of them still work for L.A. County (www.latimes.com)
Starting in the late 1990s, the complaints by young girls incarcerated at Camp Scott began to pile up — all alleging similar sexual abuse by the same man: Thomas E. Jackson, then a deputy at the Santa Clarita juvenile camp....
Tennessee prisons mishandled sexual assault cases, saw staggering turnover, audit finds (www.tennessean.com)
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Rankin Sheriff’s Department faces another lawsuit, this one for a jail suicide (mississippitoday.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/rankin-sheriff-department-sued-…
‘A Crazy System’: How Arbitration Returns Abusive Guards to New York Prisons (www.themarshallproject.org)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/VpiFG?wr=true
Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it (www.npr.org)
Among the findings:...
Race played role in sentencing of Black child, 10, for urinating in public, lawyer says (www.nbcnews.com)
The lawyer said he’s baffled that prosecutors pursued the case and that a youth judge oversaw a sentence that included probation and requiring the child to write a report about Kobe Bryant....
AI models propagate false race-based medical information, Stanford researchers find (stanforddaily.com)
A group of Stanford researchers found that large language models can propagate false race-based medical information.
How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras (www.propublica.org)
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill....
Why there still aren’t limits on lead in baby food (www.nbcnews.com)
An outbreak of lead poisonings in children, tied to contaminated cinnamon applesauce pouches, illustrates the gaps in how heavy metals in foods are regulated....
Man charged in the murder of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll (www.cbsnews.com)
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced Wednesday that a man has been charged with the murder of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll....
Oakland's Lake Merritt menorah destroyed, vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti (www.cbsnews.com)
Police in Oakland are investigating a destructive act of vandalism at Lake Merritt’s large public menorah that left the Hanukkah candelabrum in pieces and hateful anti-Semitic graffiti where the menorah stood....
Earliest version of Mickey Mouse set to become public domain in 2024, along with Minnie, Tigger (apnews.com)
M-I-C-K-E-Y will soon belong to you and me....
Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader's whereabouts are unknown (www.bbc.co.uk)
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been removed from the penal colony where he was serving his sentence and his whereabouts are unknown, his spokeswoman has said....
JPMorgan: 99% of Americans will be less wealthy and have less purchasing power than before Covid (creditnews.com)
Fifa, Meta and Tesco ‘most linked’ to alleged corporate migrant worker abuse (www.theguardian.com)
At least 90 workers reported to have died in the past year, mainly through breaches of health and safety standards, says report
‘I was terrorized’: 2020 election worker testifies at Giuliani defamation trial (www.theguardian.com)
Warner Robins teacher accused of threatening to kill student over comment about his Israeli flag (www.13wmaz.com)
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A Warner Robins teacher is accused of threatening to behead a student after she made a comment about his Israeli flag, according to the Houston County Sheriff's Office.
2 men charged in 'killing spree' of over 3,000 birds, including bald eagles, in Montana (www.nbcnews.com)
Simon Paul and Travis John Branson were indicted for allegedly gunning down thousands of birds, including eagles protected by federal law, over the course of several years....
New Hampshire attorney general files second complaint against white nationalist group (apnews.com)
The New Hampshire attorney general is again accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, this time in response to a demonstration outside a Concord café hosting a drag story hour event....
Rate of suicide in the U.S. peaks among older men, a hard demographic to reach (www.usatoday.com)
U.S. grids face greater risks as generators retire, demand rises - NERC (www.reuters.com)
The group painted a bleak picture for some power markets in the U.S., as wide-scale electrification spurs demand to grow at a faster pace than new generation capacity additions, and as old facilities retire. Those markets could face capacity shortfalls as a result, NERC said....
Australian woman jailed for 20 years for death of her four children has conviction quashed (www.reuters.com)
Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her children, and of manslaughter in the death of her fourth. Folbigg maintained her innocence and said the children had died of natural causes over a decade, from 1989-1999....
A new report sheds light on how advertising is going at Elon Musk's X — and the numbers aren't good (www.businessinsider.com)
