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Federal Prison Crisis Poses ‘Critical Threat’ To Justice Department, Report Finds
By Ryan J. Reilly The ballooning cost of the overcrowded federal prison system is an “increasingly critical threat” to the Justice Department’s ability to fulfill its mission, the department’s inspector general said in a report released Friday, which outlined the … Continue reading
Eric Holder Says DOJ Will Let Washington, Colorado Marijuana Laws Go Into Effect
By Ryan J. Reilly & Ryan Grimm The United States government took an historic step back from its long-running drug war on Thursday, when Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado that the Department of Justice would … Continue reading
A question of civil rights? Federal role shaped by decades of cases before Trayvon Martin
By Associated Press Almost as soon as George Zimmerman was pronounced “not guilty” in a Florida courtroom, the cry went up. The U.S. government must get “justice for Trayvon,” insisted protesters angry about the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager … Continue reading
Mass incarceration does injustice to millions of American children
By Michael Leo Owens Reform criminal justice now. That was the core message US Attorney General Eric Holder delivered recently to the American Bar Association and our nation. He declared that “too many Americans go to too many prisons for … Continue reading
11 facts about America’s prison population
By Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas Here’s a bit of context for Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to encourage federal prosecutors to charge low-level drug offenders with less severe crimes (thanks to Dylan Matthews and Brad Plumer for doing a … Continue reading
Justice Department Sues Florida Over Disabled Kids in Nursing Homes
By Mother Jones The Justice Department Monday sued the state of Florida over its longstanding practice of housing medically fragile and disabled children in geriatric nursing homes, alleging that the state is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The … Continue reading
Sanford police deliver George Zimmerman evidence to FBI office in Orlando
By Arelis R. Hernandez Sanford police confirmed that within the last hour they had delivered boxes of evidence from their investigation into George Zimmerman to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Orlando office. Capt. Jim McAuliffe said the delivery — which … Continue reading
U.S. reviewing 27 death penalty convictions for FBI forensic testimony errors
By Spencer S. Hsu An unprecedented federal review of old criminal cases has uncovered as many as 27 death penalty convictions in which FBI forensic experts may have mistakenly linked defendants to crimes with exaggerated scientific testimony, U.S. officials said. … Continue reading
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We Are Trayvon
By Benjamin Todd Jealous One and a half million people. As of this morning, more than one million, five hundred thousand people have signed an NAACP petition asking the Department of Justice to pursue federal and civil rights charges against … Continue reading →