February 6, 2019 at 1:25 pm DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — A 10-year-old boy who took a knee during the Pledge of Allegiance at Monday’s city council meeting in Durham, North Carolina, apparently won over the mayor. But not everybody was … Continue reading
Prisoners in lock-down after heating system failed As angry families gather in streets, prisoners bang on cell windows Officials do not move population to available nearby heated jails By Andy Newman, Christina Goldbaum and Annie Correal New York Today Feb. … Continue reading
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor January 31, 2019 Donald Trump is simply exercising an imperial mandate handed down to him by Obama, who put “humanitarian” lipstick on the white supremacist pig of American exceptionalism. “The darker peoples of the world … Continue reading
Sharon Cohen and Adam Geller, AP National Writers Jan. 21, 2019 Locked up for life at 15, Norman Brown remains defined by the crime that put him behind bars. Twenty-seven years ago, Brown joined a neighbor more than twice his … Continue reading
Editor’s note: The two Michigan juvenile lifers profiled below are among the 200 prisoners for whom county prosecutors recommended life without parole during their re-sentencings under U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Alabama. That … Continue reading
Channel 4 video above is from Oct. 2017 hearing in Charles “K.K.” Lewis case Prosecutor moves to certify substitute for Lewis’ lost court record, after first telling Judge she could give Lewis “a term of years’ in exchange Mitigation hearing … Continue reading
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From Time Magazine at http://time.com/wrongly-convicted/: “For the third year in a row the number of exonerations in the United States has hit a record high. A total of 166 wrongly convicted people whose convictions date as far back as 1964 … Continue reading
See Free Press coverage of State Sen. Rahida Tlaib’s talk at protest at https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2019/01/18/rashida-tlaib-protest-auto-show-gala/2620328002/ See MLive coverage of protest at https://www.mlive.com/naias/2019/01/gm-workers-protest-plant-closures-outside-detroit-auto-show-charity-gala.html PROTEST THE AUTO SHOW PROM! RALLY JAN 18th 5:30 pm Cobo Hall Seize The Plant, Save the Planet: Make Detroit the … Continue reading
Re-printed from “The Michigan Lifers Report, Dec. 2018 This ground-breaking book by Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis of the Sentencing Project (TSP) was released in December, 2018. They argue that there is no practical or moral justification for a sentence … Continue reading
Baltimore residents succeeded in banning water privatization in city charter. 77% of city voters approve charter amendment Baltimore City paves the way for how cities across the country can protect their water systems from the risks and costs of corporate … Continue reading
