Category: Courts/justice
The issue at Parchman Prison is bad conditions not cellphones
Amsterdam If Parchman Prison in the fertile Mississippi River delta of Sunflower County is in the news, it means there’s bad news, never good news. Parchman is the only men’s state prison in Mississippi. Parchman is…
To find Jose Montelongo, ICE agents targeted his whole family
One family’s ordeal under Trump’s zero tolerance immigration tactics. *Note: Some names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals By Sarah Tory High Country News One afternoon last April (2019), a group of agents with…
Trump admin pulls 130 extraction leases
Flagstaff The Trump administration has pulled 130 oil and gas leases in Utah because the Bureau of Land Management failed to fully analyze greenhouse gas emissions and the potential harm to climate from fossil fuel…
Rathke: Dealing with domestic abuse with databases and risk sssessment
Little Rock I don’t like to think about domestic abuse. It makes me sad. It makes me mad. I can watch the blood-and-gore on police procedurals on TV or Netflix or whatever, and pretend it’s make…
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