Category Archives: Police-Brutality
Report into Operation Eight finds Police acted unlawfully | Scoop News
Press Release: Independent Police Conduct Authority Wednesday 22 May 2013 Report into Operation Eight finds Police acted unlawfully An Independent Police Conduct Authority report has found that Police acted unlawfully in establishing road blocks and detaining and searching people during ‘Operation Eight’. The Authority today released the results of its independent investigation into the Police […]
Federal Appeals Court: Drug Sentencing Disparity Is Intentional Racial ‘Subjugation’ | ThinkProgress
The old 100-to-1 crack cocaine ratio has led to the mass incarceration of thousands of nonviolent prisoners under a law widely acknowledged as racially discriminatory. There were approximately 30,000 federal prisoners (about 15 percent of all federal prisoners) serving crack cocaine sentences in 2011. Thousands of these prisoners are incarcerated for life or for 20, […]
AFP: Guatemala: la condamnation de l’ex-dictateur Rios Montt pour génocide annulée
Mais, lundi en fin de journée, Martin Guzman, porte-parole de la Cour constitutionnelle, a annoncé que “le jugement (était) annulé” à la suite d’un recours des avocats de M. Rios Montt pour vice de procédure. La décision annule toutes les étapes après l’interruption provisoire du procès le 19 avril pour vice de procédure, ainsi que […]
Jorge Videla, Argentina’s Ex-Military Leader, Dies in Jail · Global Voices
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former president, died on May 17, 2013, at the age of 87 in a jail cell where he was imprisoned. Videla ruled between 1976 and 1981, during Argentina’s military dictatorship, a period marked by death that left thousands of people missing [es]. In 1983 the former dictator was judged and condemned […]
Assata Shakur was convicted of murder. Is she a terrorist? – The Washington Post
Today, there are more than 100 academic definitions of terrorism, said Steve Chermak, a professor at Michigan State University who helps to operate a database of extremist crime. His database goes back only to the 1990s, but if it went back further it would include Shakur based on its definition of terrorism, which asks only […]
The Maya Genocide Trial of Rios Montt : The New Yorker
Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez are charged with being the intellectual authors of a savage campaign against the Ixil Maya, a stubbornly independent group of perhaps a hundred thousand Indians who speak their own language and inhabit a lyrically beautiful region of the northern highlands, where the Cuchumatan mountains descend in long green folds toward […]
Revolutionary in Exile Added to FBI Terrorist ListMuhammad Speaks | Muhammad Speaks
Assata Shakur, a former Black activist who has been in Cuba for 40 years has become the 1st woman on the FBI’s Terrorist List. This marks her to be kidnapped or killed, said former Black Panther Activist, Angela Davis. “A $2 million bounty has been put on her head, so that anyone can go to […]
Whose Police State? — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
The aggressive tactics of law enforcement, an ongoing controversy in communities of color, have recently come into the national media spotlight—if briefly—as the constitutionally dubious practice of arbitrarily stopping and frisking (mostly black and Latino) citizens by police officers was put on trial in federal court in March (NPR, 3/21/13). But you would be hard […]
Race And America’s Prisons: It’s Complicated : Code Switch : NPR
After our post — the state incarcerates more black men than any other in the country — we started thinking a bit about some other stories and studies we’ve seen recently that deal with race and incarceration. Taken together, they help some to explain who’s ending up behind bars and what happens to them once […]
The Corrections Corporation of America’s Latest Shady Business? Tax Evasion | Alternet
Earlier this year, the Corrections Corporation of America offered to take over state-run prisons, provided that they remain 90% stocked full of inmates ready for cheap labor. Now, the CCA — which runs 44 private prisons and detention centers across America — is gearing up to avoid paying taxes by claiming to be a real […]
