An Idaho court has ruled that a lawsuit filed by the state’s American Civil Liberties Union over public defender funding can move to class action status. “This decision is about ensuring even the most vulnerable among us have adequate legal representation and that public defenders have the time and resources they need to defend their
When police came to arrest Randall McCrary, they found the 45-year old in an unstable state. Covered in his own waste and screaming at convenience store customers, officers took the mentally ill man into custody some four months ago. Once in jail, McCrary couldn’t afford to leave. A municipal court set his bail at $500,
Wisconsin is in settlement talks with juvenile inmates who’d been incarcerated at two juvenile detention facilities. Governor Scott Walker ordered the Lincoln Hill School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls closed, months after a judge demanded that abuse at both institutes be ended. Detainees were helped in taking legal action by the Wisconsin
While Trump writes off poor, black countries as “shitholes,” ignorant of history and how wealth extraction creates poverty, the Flint water case grinds on.
Wisconsin taxpayers are due to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of former inmate Jeremy Cunningham. The 34-year old ex-convict was found dead in his cell by paramedics in 2011. According to Cunningham’s estate and attorneys, a guard at Milwaukee Detention Facility knew the inmate had a heart condition. But for
School furnace broken? Cancer diagnosis? A failing commons means more people begging for funds, but crowdfunding won’t cure poverty or fix systemic ills.
Ahed Tamimi is the ginger-haired sixteen year old Palestinian girl currently being held in Israeli prison for slapping soldiers after her cousin was shot.
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Illegal immigrants incarcerated in San Diego are suing prison contractor CoreCivic, claiming the company is exploiting their labor and may be violating human trafficking laws. In a class action suit filed Wednesday, plaintiffs have claimed they’re being paid as little as $1.50 per day at Otay Mesa Detention Center. Working as kitchen staff, janitors, and