Kids With Cognitive Problems Can Be Locked Up for Years Without a Trial
holwichaikawee/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. By the time he turned 15, Jesus G. was hearing voices and having suicidal thoughts. It was early 2013, and he’d been living at the Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles for more than a year, though he’d never been tried or found guilty…
California Is About to Abolish Cash Bail. Criminal Justice Advocates Aren’t Happy.
Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Criminal justice activists have long said California’s bail system needs reforming. Earlier this year, a California appellate court agreed, declaring the state’s system unconstitutional and making change inevitable. Then last week, Democrats in the state Legislature passed a bill that would effectively abolish cash bail once and for all. …
Prisoners Are Getting Creative to Pull Off a Massive Strike This Week
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; incarceratedworkers.org Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One recent afternoon in a pizzeria in Oakland, California, Cole Dorsey pulls out an LG flip phone to explain how he’s helping organize a strike in the country’s harshest workplace. The phone is small and black, with a busted interior screen.…
California Cops Shot and Killed 162 People Last Year. This Bill Could Help Reduce the Bloodshed.
Riot police officers stand guard at street after the World Cup match between Mexico and Brazil in Huntington Park, California, on Monday, July 2, 2018. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A California bill that would radically change the standard for the use of deadly force by police officers…
Nebraska Just Became the First State to Execute an Inmate With a Powerful Opioid
Nebraska Department of Correctional Services/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Nebraska made history by becoming the first state to execute an inmate using the powerful opioid fentanyl. Carey Dean Moore, who was on death row for 38 years for the murders of two cab drivers in 1979, was…
How Misidentifying Trans Victims of Violence Can Undermine Criminal Investigations
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Aea Celestice, a black transgender woman living in Jacksonville, Florida, has the most basic of plans for the next chapter of her life: She hopes to get out of town before someone kills her. Celestice, 32,…