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A Hidden Truth About Climate Change
(amforumbacklog.blogspot.com)
The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference makes evident potential catastrophic effects of climate change, including its enormous economic and human tolls. It also clearly shows how poor nations in... More
Submitted 3 months ago by AmericanForum | 0 Comments |
ACLU to Argue Against Use of Evidence Obtained Through Torture in Federal Court
(washingtonindependent.com)
The American Civil Liberties Union will file a brief tomorrow urging the federal court to suppress evidence gathered using torture, which the government wants to rely on in the case of Mohammed Jawad,... More
Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Another Delay in the CIA Inspector General Torture Report
(washingtonindependent.com)
Remember how the Justice Department was supposed to declassify the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on the “enhanced interrogation program” today? Not going to happen. There’s continued... More
Submitted 8 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
More on Criminal Justice Reform
(www.talkingpointsmemo.com)
Was pleased to see your quick post about Webb and criminal justice reform. Webb does appear to be the new Democratic champion of these issues. I heard him speak at the National Press Club earlier this... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
WEBB EYES PRISON REFORM
(www.washingtonmonthly.com)
It's a crowded policy landscape, and it's daunting to consider which challenges to address first, but kudos to Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) for raising the importance of an issue that too often goes... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Lack of Translator Leaves Innocent Korean Man Stuck in Jail
(news.newamericamedia.org)
The Metropolitan Police Department said it violated D.C. law when it allowed a Korean man to mistakenly spend four and a half days in jail because of a language barrier, reports AsianWeek. Jong Lee,... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Justice, of a Sort, for Blackwater
(www.thenation.com)
For more than five years, the Bush administration's mercenary force of choice, Blackwater Worldwide, has operated on a US government contract in Iraq in a climate that has wed immunity with impunity.... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Cruel and Unusual: Serving a Death Sentence in a Prison Hospital
(www.alternet.org)
Montell Johnson is a 42-year-old man who spends every hour of every day in a hospital bed. He can't move, and he can't talk. He eats through a feeding tube inserted into his stomach. Years of... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Prison Overcrowding Crisis Unhealthy for All Californians
(news.newamericamedia.org)
As a public health professional who has spent over 10 years advocating for prisoners' rights, I am dismayed to see the health of prisoners once again become a political football.
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
WMC Commentary Concrete Bed by Hamedah Hasan
(womensmediacenter.com)
As a result of Draconian federal sentencing laws imposed since the 1980s, the author, caught on the edges of her cousin’s cocaine-selling operation, remains locked up despite what her trial judge... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
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