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- GAYELON SPENCER, JR. FIGHTS MURDER 2 CONVICTION: COPS DESTROYED EVIDENCE, BIASED MEDIA COVERAGE
- WILLIE MERRIWEATHER MEMORIAL SAT. DECEMBER 14, 4PM: HERO WHO GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE OTHERS FROM PRISON
- DIRTY DETROIT COPS BEAT, MADE UP CONFESSIONS FROM ALTON HUBBARD, BROTHER IDOLTHUS, IN 2004 MURDERS
- ROGER CARLOS RAY WINS EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON 3RD TRY; EXONEREE LAVONE HILL CALLS FOR RAY’S RELEASE
- ‘MIKE D’ NOT THE SHOOTER, VICTIM OF 1999 INKSTER DRIVE-BY SAYS; OIC DARIAN WILLIAMS CONVICTED OF EXTORTION
- CRIMINAL DEEDS BY COPS, PROSECUTORS, JUDGES, NOT ‘DOCUMENT PURGE’ CAUSED WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
- PROTEST FRI. SEPT. 20 VS. INHUMANE TREATMENT OF PEOPLE INCARCERATED AT THE NEW WAYNE CO. JAIL
- JUSTICE FOR RICKY RIMMER, VICTIMS OF DPD COP, WCPO CRIMES: TUES. SEPT. 10, NEW CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER.
- JAMARIO MITCHELL FIGHTS 2001 MURDER CONVICTION SET UP BY DETROIT’S ‘DRAGNET’ COP ISAIAH (IKE) SMITH
- JACKSON-BOLANOS ACQUITTED OF WOLL MURDER; ATTYS. FILE TO DISMISS OTHER COUNTS AS DOUBLE JEOPARDY
- UK EXPECTED TO SUSPEND ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL AS ‘UNCOMMITTED’ IN TALKS WITH US VP KAMALA HARRIS
- FREE AT LAST AFTER 37 YRS: JUDGE DISMISSES MURDER CHARGES VS. PAUL CLARK ON INNOCENCE, BRADY CLAIMS
- JUDGE BLOUNT: FAIR HEARING, JUSTICE FOR RICKY RIMMER NOW!! STOP CORRUPT COPS! RALLY TUES. SEPT. 10 @1 PM
- MICH. LAWMAKERS CONSIDERING “PRODUCTIVITY CREDITS” BILL #SB 861 BARRING PEOPLE CURRENTLY IN PRISON
- MICHAEL JACKSON-BOLANOS TESTIFIES AT WOLL MURDER TRIAL, DEFENSE GIVES STUNNING CLOSING ARGUMENTS
- SUPPORT WILLIE MERRIWEATHER AT PUBLIC PAROLE HEARING JULY 11, 1PM ON ZOOM; REGISTER BY JULY 9
- SUCCESSFUL RETURNING CITIZEN DAY IN DETROIT BUILDS SUPPORT FOR PRISONERS, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE WALLS
- RIMMER CASE: JUDGE’S DAD, DPD SGT. MICHAEL BLOUNT, & SGT. JAMES HARRIS BOTH ON S.T.R.E.S.S., MAYOR’S SQUAD
- JUDGE BLOUNT DENIES RICKY RIMMER’ S MOTIONS FOR NEW TRIAL, HEARING ON RACIST COPS, NEW WITNESSES
- U.S. REP. RASHIDA TLAIB: ON GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS, INVASION OF RAFAH; SUPPORT SJP AT WSU MAY 28 @6PM
- SUPPORTERS OF PRISONERS AT WOMEN’S HURON VALLEY CONTINUE THE BATTLE AGAINST ‘THE VALLEY OF DEATH’
- VIVIAN KINCAID: ACTIVIST, POET, ACTOR/MOTHER, SISTER, NIECE, FRIEND–CELEBRATION OF LIFE APRIL 20 @2:30 PM
- INKSTER COP DARIAN WMS. EXTORTED DRUG DEALERS DURING CASE V. MICH. LIFER MICHAEL DEGRAFFENRIED
- VICTORY! JUDGE KIEFER COX DISMISSES CHARGES V. EWING, SEARCY, CITING DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS
- DARRELL EWING INVOKES RIGHT TO ATTY. FOR RE-TRIAL MARCH 25, CITES COX’S CRIPPLING ‘RULES OF THE ROAD’
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Tag Archives: #PrisonNation
STOP TORTURING MICHIGAN’S JUVENILE LIFERS WITH STATE DELAYS! FREEDOM NOW!
Youtube Video above, published on Apr 26, 2016, produced for V.O.T.E by Alex Chemerinsky, Mariah Branyan State juvenile lifers who waited decades for USSC to declare JLWOP unconstitutional subjected to further anguish as state stalls release Of 364 cases, 8 … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #Blackkidslivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Breakdownthewalls, #ENDMassIncarceration, #FreeMichiganJuvenileLifersNOW, #Michissippigoddam, #PrisonNation, #saveourchildren, #SchooltoPrisonPipeline, #StandUpNow, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWaronourYouth
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FREE CHARLES LEWIS, INNOCENT JUVENILE LIFER WHO HAS SPENT 41 YEARS IN STATE PRISONS
Hearing in case in front of Judge Qiana Lillard set for May 26, 2016, 9 am Lewis has long fought for his freedom, claiming actual innocence and citing recent USSC court decisions in Miller v. Alabama, Montgomery v. Louisiana ‘Pure … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #Blackkidslivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Breakdownthewalls, #FREECHARLESLEWISNOW, #MassIncarceration, #Michissippigoddam, #PrisonNation, #saveourchildren, #SchooltoPrisonPipeline, #StandUpNow, #StopJLWOP, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWaronourYouth
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MICHIGAN JUVENILE LIFERS SCORE 6TH CIRCUIT APPEALS COURT VICTORY IN HILL V. SNYDER
In Hill v. Snyder, 6th Circuit rejects state statutes, calls for “meaningful and realistic opportunity for release” for all state juvenile lifers Michigan officials including AG Bill Schuette, Wayne Co. Prosecutor Kym Worthy have opposed ANY relief for children sent to … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #Blackkidslivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Breakdownthewalls, #MassIncarceration, #Michissippigoddam, #PrisonNation, #saveourchildren, #SchooltoPrisonPipeline, #StandUpNow, #StopJWLOP, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWaronourYouth
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WHY IS JUVENILE LIFER CHARLES LEWIS STILL IN PRISON, 16 YRS. AFTER HIS CASE WAS DISMISSED?
Judge Qiana Lillard acknowledges court order dismissing case at hearing April 21, 2016, takes no action Lewis’ state court files, filling three cartons, have mysteriously “disappeared,” next hearing to feature last known official in possession Lewis is one of state’s … Continue reading
DYING IN PRISON: MICHIGAN JUVENILE LIFERS GET NEW HOPE UNDER MONTGOMERY, STILL FACE OBSTACLES
U.S. Supreme Court ruled Jan. 25 in Montgomery v. Louisiana that Miller v. Alabama decision declaring JLWOP unconstitutional is retroactive But MICHISSIPPI’s juvenile lifers still have “many rivers to cross” in state with 2nd highest number of JLWOPer’s in U.S., under … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #Blackkidslivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Breakdownthewalls, #MassIncarceration, #Michissippigoddam, #PrisonNation, #saveourchildren, #SchooltoPrisonPipeline, #StandUpNow, #StopJWLOP, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWaronourYouth
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PRAYER BRUNCH TO FREE DAVONTAE SANFORD SAT. MARCH 12; FALSELY CONVICTED AS CHILD OF 14, NOW 23
By Diane Bukowski March 9, 2016 Davontae Sanford’s case is one of the worst miscarriages of justice Voice of Detroit has seen. At the age of 14, Davontae was lured by Detroit police into confessing to the gruesome murders … Continue reading
‘ROBOCOP’ MELENDEZ GETS 13 MOS. – 10 YRS. FOR NEAR-FATAL BEATING OF BLACK AUTOWORKER FLOYD DENT
Judge Evans lectures Robocop for 20 minutes: “Today is payback for resorting to an act of cowardly brutality. . . .It ain’t no fun when the rabbit’s got the gun.” Dent: “I may be able someday to forgive what he … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #FloydDent, #JailKillerCops, #PoliceState, #policeviolence, #PrisonNation, #Robocop, #saveourchildren, #StandUpNow, #StopPoliceBrutality, #StopPoliceMurders, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #WilliamMelendez
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MADDOW: SNYDER’S NEW MDEQ CHIEF OPPOSES FEDS’ FLINT WATER ORDER; FLINT TOWN HALL JAN. 27, 9 PM
Posted on Theresa Ellis Youtube channel January 24, 2015 Video: Rachel Maddow interviews Michigan Radio reporter on Gov. Snyder’s refusal to comply fully with order from Environmental Protection Agency on Flint water crisis. Keith Creagh, the new Director of Michigan’s … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #BoycottMichigan, #Detroit2Flint, #DirectActionNow, #Flintlivesmatter, #FlintWaterCrisis, #GeneralStrike, #JailSnyder, #OurWaterOurVote, #PoliceState, #PrisonNation, #SaveBentonHarbor, #SaveDetroit, #SaveFlint, #SaveHighlandPark, #saveourchildren, #SavePontiac, #StandUpNow, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #WATERISLIFE
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BOYCOTT MICHIGAN! JAIL SNYDER, CRONIES FOR FLINT LEAD POISONING, DOMESTIC TERRORISM, RACISM
Highest lead level in Flint: 13,000 parts per billion; most water nothing but “toxic waste”—Virginia Tech Snyder: “I take full responsibility to fix the problem so it will never happen again.” Snyder’s Public Act 436 coup d’etat led to Flint catastrophe; … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #BoycottMichigan, #Detroit2Flint, #DirectActionNow, #Flintlivesmatter, #GeneralStrike, #JailSnyder, #OurWaterOurVote, #PoliceState, #PrisonNation, #SaveBentonHarbor, #SaveDetroit, #SaveFlint, #SaveHighlandPark, #saveourchildren, #SavePontiac, #StandUpNow, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #WATERISLIFE
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NO INDICTMENTS IN SANDRA BLAND’S DEATH; FAMILY OBJECTS TO GRAND JURY PROCESS, SECRECY
Bland’s family has said they do not believe her case is being thoroughly investigated by the Texas Rangers Most media outlets not reporting that trooper slammed college student’s head into the ground after her arrest December 21, 2015 Al Jazeera … Continue reading