Oklahoma hasn’t executed anyone since January 2015. The state injected Charles Warner with potassium acetate, a drug commonly used for executions. According to The Death Penalty Information Center, Warner’s last words were “my body is on fire”. A second man, Charles Lockett, had been executed the
In a letter to the President, the members of the nonprofit Fair and Just Prosecution explain, “Across the country over the past few years, a number of elected reform-minded prosecutors are boldly redefining what it means to be a prosecutor and how we can play
A flurry of litigation has been filed in response to a violent crackdown at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts in early 2020 according to The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team. The crackdown followed an assault in January 2020 in which four guards were injured. Although
Former DEA agent Chad Allen Scott was recently charged with official misconduct, perjury, obstruction of justice, and theft. As a former law enforcement officer, he went against the principles to protect and serve the people of his community and serve justice for the drug crimes
Photo by Emiliano Bar on Unsplash When the ACLU sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons last year over lack of protocol to protect people from COVID-19, the responses ranged from slow to silent. Then, accounts from employees as the prisons trickled in. The responses were
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS WORK TO KEEP JUSTICE-IMPACTED PEOPLE AT HOME AMID COVID UPTICK
Image courtesy of iStockphoto.com A new bill allowing first responders, including police officers, to directly due protestors, passed on the evening of August 2, 2021. The bill allows first responders to sue anyone who they believe has harassed, injured, menaced or assaulted them while on duty.
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), two of the original writers of the First Step Act (FSA), are working to win Senate passage of a big criminal justice reform package this Congress. Crime is up in major cities, and the Senate Judiciary Committee
Image courtesy of iStockphoto.com In a memo posted on Monday, Commissioner Burl Cain said Visitation at all Mississippi Department of Corrections prisons has been suspended. After nearly 15 months of safety restrictions, visitation had finally been reinstated in May of 2021. Now, with COVID-19 variants on the
Photo courtesy of SeanPavonePhoto via iStockphoto.com In a new report, the ACLU takes particular notice of the South Carolina prison system. The report highlights the issues of mass incarceration and lack of resources that are prevalent in the state and how they disproportionally affect black and