From TPM: The Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement just cut off the Maricopa County’s Sheriff’s Office’s access to the Secure Communities program and terminated an agreement which lets them detain individuals in the country illegally after their initial arrest. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in…
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Criminal InJustice† is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons ~ An…
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From ThinkProgress: At least 2.5 million younger Americans now have health insurance as a result of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that allows adults to stay on their parents’ health care plans until 26 years of age, the Associated Press reports. The Obama administration is expected to release…
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From Montgomery Advertiser: U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson issued a preliminary injunction Monday afternoon against a part of the law that forbids state and local agencies from engaging in “business transactions” with undocumented immigrants. He found that a lawsuit challenging that part of the law — Section 30 —…
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From Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: Without coming right out and saying so, Wisconsin State Journal columnist Chris Rickert’s column in this morning’s paper raises the question of whether restrictions should be placed on the constitutional right to recall public officials in Wisconsin. Rickert laments that “a man who’s done nothing worse…
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From Black Star News: Why do we sell our history so cheap? I have heard too many allude to Occupy Wall Street as being “just like the Civil Rights Movement.” OWS should align itself with specific causes and use its clout and shine light on issues of unfairness. However, not…
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The Supreme Court granted cert this morning in United States v. Arizona. Here is the order: ARIZONA, ET AL. V. UNITED STATES The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition. Justice Kagan has recused herself, leaving…
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From The New York Times: It is the other Guantánamo, an archipelago of federal prisons that stretches across the country, hidden away on back roads. Today, it houses far more men convicted in terrorism cases than the shrunken population of the prison in Cuba that has generated so much debate.…
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