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Most Jan. 6 defendants get time behind bars, but less than prosecutors sought (www.washingtonpost.com)
Three years after the Capitol attack, federal judges in Washington have sentenced more than half of the roughly 1,200 people charged in the largest investigation in U.S. history and have handed down lighter punishments for Jan. 6 assault convictions compared with similar assault cases nationally, a Washington Post analysis...
Dial Tone - "Marilyn" (piped.video)
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In southern Mexico, the cost for migrants to reach the US is increasingly death (www.elpasotimes.com)
Migrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border, including thousands of migrant deaths in the Arizona desert, have long drawn alarm. Recent federal data shows record numbers of migrant deaths in U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s El Paso Sector, which includes New Mexico and far west Texas. In March, 40 migrants died and several...
How the Chicago Sun-Times investigated cops who joined extremist and hate groups (chicago.suntimes.com)
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DNA evidence casts doubt on Henry Jamerson’s rape conviction after 24 years in prison in Oklahoma. Prosecutors are fighting efforts to clear his name. (www.readfrontier.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/dna-evidence-casts-doubt-on-hen…
When Alabama Police Kill, Surviving Family Can Fight Years to See Bodycam Footage. There’s No Guarantee They Will. (www.propublica.org)
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State government buildings face bomb threats for second consecutive day (www.nbcnews.com)
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Several buildings in Jackson Mississippi cleared and reopened after bomb threats Thursday (www.clarionledger.com)
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Bomb threat at courthouse halts hearing involving Arkansas Board of Corrections (www.arkansasonline.com)
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Police clear scene after bomb threat at Daytona Beach courthouse (www.mynews13.com)
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She Immigrated Legally. She Married a U.S. Citizen. But She Was Denied Citizenship for Working in Legal Cannabis. (www.politico.com)
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He Killed His Molester as a Teenager. Should He Be Spared Deportation? (www.nytimes.com)
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Families Still Being Separated at Border, Say Human Rights Groups in Letter to DHS (timesofsandiego.com)
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NYC councilmember says Mayor Adams tried to stop police transparency bill by trading budget cuts (gothamist.com)
Mayor Eric Adams told at least one member of the City Council he would restore cuts to their favorite programs if they agreed to vote against a police transparency bill the mayor and NYPD officials vigorously opposed, according to four people familiar with conversations in the Council....
Chicago community organizers and police reform advocates question the lack of transparency surrounding the city’s new contract with the FOP (chicagoreader.com)
Full title (exceeded character limits) - “‘Not the way a transparent, democratic process should work,’ Chicago community organizers and police reform advocates question the lack of transparency surrounding the city’s new contract with the FOP and say Mayor Brandon Johnson should’ve pushed for greater accountability for...
St. Louis Police Crash Into LGBTQ Bar, Arrest Its Owner (www.riverfronttimes.com)
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Oregon Passed A Bill To Compensate The Wrongfully Convicted. Almost None Of Them Have Been Paid. (www.huffpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/oregon-wrongful-conviction-comp…
It’s Going to Be a Long Winter at New York City's Floyd Bennett Field for Migrants (www.curbed.com)
Residents of the 2,000-bed shelter, which opened in November to house migrant families after the Adams administration said hotels and shelter space had hit capacity, were bracing for more long nights. The complex, four massive tents divided into private pods where families sleep on cots, is heated and fortified with ballasts...
The last days of Little Eddie: life and death in a New Jersey prison (www.theguardian.com)
[Kory] McClary is a writer for the Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit news organization that provides incarcerated writers with tools and training. From a cell directly below the man’s cell, McClary overheard his decline over several weeks and described it in a harrowing article that was shared with MindSite News, a...
$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people (www.latimes.com)
If 100 homeless people were given $750 per month for a year, no questions asked, what would they spend it on?...
As Los Angeles Politicians Trade Barbs, Jail Deaths Keep Mounting (boltsmag.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/los-angeles-county-board-of-sup…
This Agency Is Supposed to Monitor New York's Jails. Is Anyone Monitoring It? (nysfocus.com)
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These Oklahomans Needed Mental Health Care. Instead, They Died in Jail. (oklahomawatch.org)
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Florida State Guard unit received weapons training for migrant responses (www.tampabay.com)
The training sessions, authorized this summer following a surge in migrant arrivals by boat to the Keys, mostly from Cuba and Haiti, were for a specialized unit of the Florida State Guard, revived last year by the Florida Legislature. The unit that received the training has the power to make arrests and carry weapons under state...
New York City Moves to Ban Solitary Confinement, Defying Mayor Adams (www.nytimes.com)
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Utah Women Tried to Report Sexual Assaults to Police. They Say They Faced Delays and Language Barriers. (www.propublica.org)
Arredondo, who has worked with Latino victims of crimes since 2012, said this was the first time she’s involved a consulate in order to get a callback from the police....
Cold Case Killer - Kelly Siegler Is a True-Crime Celebrity. Did She Frame an Innocent Man for Murder? (theintercept.com)
As Siegler’s TV star has been rising over the last decade, a parallel reality has been playing out in Texas courts, where allegations of prosecutorial misconduct have tarnished Siegler’s reputation. Appellate litigation in murder cases handled by Siegler has exposed a history of withholding exculpatory evidence from defense...
An Oklahoma mom’s court challenge seeks to end charges for pregnant women who use medical marijuana (www.readfrontier.org)
The legal challenge involves the case of Brittany Gunsolus, 27, who used marijuana edibles and topical creams during her pregnancy with a recommendation from her doctor, according to the filing. Gunsolus gave birth to a healthy baby in Lawton in October 2020 who tested positive for marijuana. Child welfare workers closed an...
For Years, Prison Life Was Isolated From Tech. Now Tech Is Beginning to Define It. (slate.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/time-online-how-technology-is-c…
Israel is using an AI system to find targets in Gaza. Experts say it's just the start (www.npr.org)
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Border policies under consideration could overwhelm system, DHS officials warn (www.nbcnews.com)
Department of Homeland Security officials are warning about the impact of policies being discussed in negotiations between the White House and Congress that would increase deportations, deny many migrants the right to seek asylum and make detention mandatory, according to current and former officials who spoke to NBC News....
Inside the Border Talks That Could Decide the Fate of Ukraine Aid (www.nytimes.com)
The White House has signaled that it is open to several Republican proposals, according to Biden administration officials, lawmakers in both parties and people familiar with the matter....
Why more women live in major East Coast counties while men outnumber them in the West (apnews.com)
Anyone who has suspected that there are more women than men where they live, or vice versa, will find fodder for their suspicions in new data from the U.S. Census Bureau....
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)
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‘A Crazy System’: How Arbitration Returns Abusive Guards to New York Prisons (www.themarshallproject.org)
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Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it (www.npr.org)
Among the findings:...
US proposes replacing engine-housing parts on Boeing jets like one involved in passenger's death (apnews.com)
Federal officials are proposing modifications and additional inspections on nearly 2,000 Boeing planes in the United States to prevent a repeat of the engine-housing breakup that killed a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight in 2018....
Inside the Urgent Campaign to Commute North Carolina’s Entire Death Row (boltsmag.org)
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Some states spurn migrants. The Rust Belt wants them. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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A mother searched for her son for months — until NBC News discovered he’d been buried in a pauper’s field (www.nbcnews.com)
Third time this has been discovered in Hinds county over the past few months...
The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn. (www.nytimes.com)
“Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits. Buyers online can easily replace what’s missing and reconstitute the...