Justice
On Thursday, February 20, Georgia Congressman Henry “Hank” Johnson will host his Restoration Resource Fair for ex-offenders, previously incarcerated, returning citizens or those caught up...
The American Civil Liberties Union, the Innocence Project, the ACLU of Arkansas, Hogan Lovells US LLP, and Little Rock attorney John Tull today filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit...
Amadou Diallo, 23, executed in a hail of 41 shots, by the NYPD on February 4, 1999.
The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book "The Roots of Racism in...
New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it was denying a motion to expedite review of a decision in...
Dr. King. Photo: Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons.
As we celebrate Rev. Martin Luther King’s birthday, many laudatory columns will be printed about...
New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general in continuing efforts to halt federal immigration arrests of noncitizens without a judicial warrant or...
St Louis City Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner recently filed a lawsuit against city officials--including police officers--who she has accused of orchestrating "a broad campaign of...
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the first Black person to achieve that post, is so fed-up with what she sees as an orchestrated attempt by racist "entrenched interests" to...
Yesterday, Chief Judge Prentis Edwards Jr. (from the Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan) granted a motion to vacate the 1991 conviction of Innocence Project client Gerry Thomas (above with...
If withholding U.S. military aid...
Speaker Pelosi is asking party-before-country politicians like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham (who have made it clear they will pervert any principles they may have had to protect...
Political prisoner Dr. Mutulu Shakur--who has been unjustly imprisoned for 33 years--was just diagnosed with bone marrow cancer & needs money for lawyers to file a compassionate...
Why are 48,000 children and teenagers locked up in the United States, and where exactly are they? How are the juvenile justice system and the criminal justice system similar, and how are...
[Future Hope column]
Bernie Sanders. Photo Gage Skidmore--Wikimedia commons.
It is a very good and necessary thing that Mafioso Don was impeached yesterday by the Democrats in the...
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