At a School Safety Conference, Sessions Spent a Lot of Time Defending Trump’s Immigration Policies
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on immigration and law enforcement actions to cadets from Lackwanna College Police Academy.Michael Candelori/Pacific Press/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, US attorney general Jeff Sessions doubled down on the Trump Administration’s immigration policies during a speech to 1,000 school cops at…
Nevada Is Trying a New Drug to Execute Inmates and Has No Idea How It Will Work
Hailshadow/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Dozier is scheduled to be executed on July 11. In 2016, when the 47-year-old inmate first asked to skip his appeals and be put to death, Nevada didn’t have any execution drugs on hand. But last August, the state announced that it would…
Lawsuit Alleges Milwaukee Cop Involved in NBA Player’s Violent Arrest Later Joked About It on Facebook
This Jan. 26, 2018 police body-camera footage released by Milwaukee Police Department shows NBA Bucks guard Sterling Brown as he talks to arresting police officers after being shot by a stun gun in a Walgreens parking lot in Milwaukee. MIlwaukee Police Department/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, professional…
Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Este articulo pronto estará disponible en español. The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening. Many of them sound like they’re…
Understaffed Federal Prison Is Taking in 1,000 Noncriminal Immigrants, and Even the Guards Are Protesting
Homeland Security buses enter the federal correctional complex in Victorville, California.James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, as the first busloads of immigrants rolled up to the federal prison complex in Victorville, California, the facilities there went on lockdown. The Victorville complex, in an…
The Era of Mass Incarceration Isn’t Over. This New Report Shows Why.
IPGGutenbergUKLtd/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since the US incarceration rate started to level off at the turn of the century, activists and criminal justice reform advocates have been hopeful that the era of mass incarceration may finally be over. Indeed, the number of people locked up in prisons across the…