On July 22, a day after she was arrested for failing to pay court fines, Joyce Curnell was found at a Charleston County jail because “she was deprived of water,” a new suit filed by her family alleges. Ms Curnell, 50, of Edisto Island, South Carolina, was being treated for …
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A Utah man died in a jail cell shortly after he was taken into custody for unpaid ambulance bills totaling nearly $2,400. Rex Iverson, 45, died in a Box Elder County Jail in the afternoon of January 23, 2016 while jail staff were elsewhere in the facility preparing for the …
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William Melendez, an officer nicknamed ‘Robocop’ by the press for his brutal beating of 58 year old motorist Floyd Dent in Inkster, MI, has been sentenced to a term of no less than 13 months and up to 10 years in prison. Melendez was convicted in November of assault with intent to …
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The State Of California seems poised to execute death-row inmate Kevin Cooper for first-degree murder charges, despite defense attorneys having convinced judges overseeing the case of his innocence. The brutal murder of a family in Chino Hills, an affluent suburb of Los Angeles, outraged the public and prompted an immediate …
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Last Saturday, audio tapes in the death of 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen were released, and they seem to corroborate excessive uses of force and negligence after the fact from the detention center. According to the tapes originally released by CBS News, a sheriff’s deputy planning to transported McMillen to court arrived …
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Today’s edition of the Washington Post contains an op-ed by President Obama outlining a series of executive actions on the use of solitary confinement in American federal prisons. Currently around 100,000 inmates are serving time in solitary confinement. The Justice Department’s research has found a high incidence of depression, withdrawal, exacerbated …
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In Ajalpan, Mexico two brothers were threatened by an angry mob who believed them to be kidnappers. Police identified them as pollsters for a marketing company and brought them to safety in a government building, but the town’s citizens believed otherwise. One vigilante doused the two brothers with gasoline and lit …
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Once again, we see a criminal justice system in action working overtime to protect certain citizens. If James Bascue was a minority firing on an LAPD officer, would he only on probation? Would he be alive? Via LA Times: A retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has pleaded no contest …
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There is no precedent for the ruling of Baltimore circuit court judge Barry Williams. The judge will allow William Porter, who currently is waiting for a new trial after his own ended in a mistrial, to take the stand against the van driver Caesar Goodson in his second degree murder …
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