From Restorefairness.org: Early one morning, Maria—then nine months pregnant—and her family were stopped by the police for no discernible reason. A special breakfast outing became a nightmare—and at one of the most intimate moments of her life, Maria found a team of immigration agents—not her husband—by her side. Maria’s chilling…
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Cross-Posted from Criminal Injustice Kos:† † Criminal InJustice Kos is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy Heitzeg (aka Soothsayer99 of DK), Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CIK. Criminal InJustice Kos is published every Wednesday at 6…
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From the LA Times: The trial of a middle school student who shot and killed a gay classmate during a morning computer lab ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors said that after 17 hours of deliberations they could not agree whether to convict Brandon McInerney. Jurors deadlocked 7 to…
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From the Huffington Post: A 7-cent robbery might sound like a petty crime, but, combined with the assault of a 73-year-old man, it’s landed 15-year-old Anthony Stewart some serious time in juvenile detention. Onondaga County Judge William Walsh decided that Stewart deserved to have the incident on his permanent record.…
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Cross-Posted from Criminal Injustice Kos:† † Criminal InJustice Kos is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Soothsayer99, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CIK. Criminal InJustice Kos is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. Attica Prison Uprising…
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The Strauss-Kahn case will make immigrants, particularly poor immigrant women of color, less likely to report crimes of sexual assault and rape, especially when the alleged perpetrator is a powerful, affluent white European male. Slate has a remarkable rebuttal against the Manhattan D.A.’s characterizations of the alleged inconsistencies of Nafissatou…
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, a 4-acre commemorative site on the National Mall, will be officially dedicated on Aug. 28. It is the first memorial to be dedicated [on the National Mall] to a non-white leader and an African-American. Twenty-six-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. was the chosen leader…
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From Colorlines: Authorities from DHS and the Department of Justice will review on a case by case basis the 300,000 people facing deportation and whose cases are currently clogging up the immigration courts. Immigrants facing deportation who are not a high priority for deportation, such as those with no criminal…
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