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This Texas town has about 250 people. It has 50 sworn police officers. (www.khou.com)
KHOU 11 Investigates discovered more than half of the cops in the Coffee City Police Department had been suspended, demoted or fired from their previous jobs....
Attorney alleges client brutally beaten in Baton Rouge Police Department ‘torture warehouse’ (www.wafb.com)
Scorching Heat Is Contributing to Migrant Deaths: More than 500 people have died of various causes this year while trying to cross from Mexico. (web.archive.org)
Maryland Parents Charged With Murder Over Death of Transgender Teenager (www.advocate.com)
Morgan Moore, who had diabetes and multiple sclerosis, died last year at 17, weighing only 79 pounds....
Texas inmates soaking bedsheets in toilet water to cool off in unairconditioned prisons (www.sacurrent.com)
At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune....
Dying and disabled Illinois prisoners kept behind bars, despite new medical release law (www.wbez.org)
Behind the lower-than-expected numbers is the Prisoner Review Board, a state body appointed by Pritzker and confirmed by the Illinois Senate with final say on medical release requests....
Federal judge says New Jersey law banning immigrant detention contract with private operator unconstitutional (www.politico.com)
The opinion by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Kirsch, sitting in Trenton, could allow the center in Elizabeth run by private corrections company CoreCivic to remain open just days before its contract was set to expire. Federal officials have written in court filings that they “fully intend” to extend the private detention...
Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says (www.latimes.com)
“In their zeal to collude with ICE, CDCR is not only targeting people who have served their time and are set to return home for detention and deportation but is also sweeping up U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, relying on racist assumptions and ignoring their own records,” the report states
The NYPD has stopped tens of thousands of people under Mayor Adams. Just 5% were white. (gothamist.com)
Avalanche of lawsuits accuse New York prison guards of sexually abusing inmates (buffalonews.com)
Man struggling with mental health issues shot, killed by Jersey City police, family says (pix11.com)
Andrew Jerome Washington’s family said they called the Jersey City Medical Center Crisis Center for help around 3 p.m. Sunday, but police arrived instead.
Biden says it’s time for Americans to ‘speak up’ because ‘diversity’s being attacked’ (thehill.com)
President Biden on Monday said that all Americans must speak up because diversity is being attacked, remarks he made while marking 60 years of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law....
Backers blast approved ballot language for Ohio's fall abortion amendment as misleading (apnews.com)
Among the revisions, the word “fetus” in the amendment was changed to “unborn child” in the ballot description.
Basic Instinct 2 End Credits by John Murphy (www.youtube.com)
As Ralph Yarl begins his senior year of high school, the man who shot him faces a court hearing (apnews.com)
Repeated Police Misconduct by 116 Officers Cost Chicago Taxpayers $91.3M Over 3 Years: Analysis (news.wttw.com)
Chicago taxpayers paid $91.3 million to resolve lawsuits that named 116 Chicago police officers whose alleged misconduct led more than once to payouts between 2019 and 2021, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News....
Federal judge: West Virginia can restrict abortion pill sales (apnews.com)
West Virginia can restrict the sale of the abortion pill, despite federal regulators’ approval of it as a safe and effective medication, a federal judge has ruled....
Alice Cooper Calls Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Kids a ‘Fad,’ Condemns ‘the Whole Woke Thing’ (www.billboard.com)
He becomes the latest shock rocker to share his distaste for gender-affirming care after Dee Snider and Paul Stanley shared similar views.
Republican debate: What they said (and didn't say) about climate (www.bbc.com)
After reading out some statistics from the deadly Hawaii wildfires, they played a clip from a member of the Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative youth activist organisation, who said climate was the number one issue for young people....
The breakout song by an artist who goes by Oliver Anthony laid the groundwork to open the first Republican presidential debate for the 2024 election. But the song has notes of conspiracy theories. (www.npr.org)
gotdam frickin milkshake duck is undefeated
Secret Service Agents Were in Contact With Far-Right Oath Keepers - A new report reveals members of the Secret Service were in communication with the group’s radical leader, Stewart Rhodes (newrepublic.com)
Man Dead At Rikers, Becoming 8th Inmate To Die In NYC Custody In 2023 (patch.com)
A man in Rikers Island died Tuesday morning, becoming the eighth New Yorker to die in city jail custody this year, advocates said....
Asylum-seekers are being set up for rejection at a New Mexico detention facility, rights groups say (apnews.com)
A coalition of human rights groups on Tuesday leveled new criticism at a privately operated migrant detention facility in New Mexico where they say fast-track asylum screenings routinely take place without legal counsel or adequate privacy during sensitive testimony....
Texas imprisoned migrants after they should have been released, lawsuit claims (www.texastribune.org)
Immigrant rights advocates on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against two South Texas sheriffs and two state prison wardens on behalf of four Mexican migrants, claiming they were held in prison for as long as six weeks after they served their sentences or had their trespassing charges dropped....
Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
Grand jury cites shoddy investigations by Brookhaven Police Dept. at center of mistrial (www.clarionledger.com)
A Mississippi grand jury issued a report last month sharply criticizing a police department whose errors prompted a mistrial this week in the case of two white men charged in an attack on a Black FedEx driver
Jacksonville jail's review of deaths deemed inadequate by accrediting agency (jaxtrib.org)
127,000 New York Workers Have Been Victims of Wage Theft (www.propublica.org)
An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million
NYPD “Friendly Fire” Killed an Officer. Investigators Seemed to Ignore Video of Police Being Commanded to “Stop Shooting.” (www.propublica.org)
After pledging a “thorough” investigation, the NYPD cleared the officers involved in the 2019 shooting. But new records show that investigators allowed police misstatements to stand, despite having body-camera video to disprove them.
Doctors, patients try to shame insurers online to reverse authorization denials (www.nbcnews.com)
Insurers say prior authorization helps control costs by preventing medically unnecessary care, but patients say the process can delay or deny access to needed treatments.
Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water because jail won't abide vegan diet, lawyer says (www.nbcnews.com)
The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering....
Appeals Court Lets Alabama Enforce Trans Care Ban, Cites Anti-Abortion Ruling (www.advocate.com)
Opioid Settlement Money Is Being Spent on Police Cars and Overtime (web.archive.org)
Original - www.nytimes.com/…/opioids-settlement-money.html
Masculine Policy: The GOP’s Plan To Outlaw ‘Porn’ And Suspend The First Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
Olive oil is in trouble as extreme heat and drought push the industry into crisis | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)