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6 Jan 2024, 4:28 am by INFORRM
The RSF report registers China, Myanmar, Belarus, and Vietnam as the world’s biggest jailers of journalists – these states detain nearly half of all the journalists currently in prison. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 3:44 pm by Amy Howe
Monroe was placed in a cell with a telephone with a 30-inch phone cord, which Monroe used to strangle himself while the jailer on duty watched, without calling for help. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 10:02 am by Andrea Woods
For example, in Memphis, Tennessee, the chief jailer testified under oath that the jail was following a policy of not returning a COVID-positive person to the general population until they had twice tested negative for COVID-19. [read post]
21 Jul 2020, 11:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, which is the state licensing agency for Texas police and jailers, is up for "Sunset" review during the next Texas legislative session in 2021. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 9:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 12:23 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Baytown police chief filed a complaint against his own police officers after seeing video of them aggressively arresting young men for cussing. [read post]
1 May 2020, 5:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But Chief Brian Manley returned a donation of Narcan worth a quarter of a million dollars that was intended to give officers in the field tools to save these folks. [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Bas Aja, lobbyist for the Arizona Cattle Feeders’ Association, confronted Cook last fall and then received “threatening emails on multiple occasions” from Cook in the middle of the night, Aja wrote to the House chief of staff. [read post]
22 Nov 2019, 2:05 pm
I hope the following links, excerpts, comments, and reflections (in no particular order) will prove of interest for one reason or another to our readers. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 9:10 am by Amanda Sloat
Erdoğan appointed Army General Hulusi Akar, the former chief of staff, as defense minister—the first time a civilian government has picked an active-duty commander. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 11:07 pm by Steve Lubet
Lincoln, and therefore the jailers, simply ignored Taney’s demand, and Merryman remained in military custody. [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 5:00 am by Sarah Grant
Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Judges Karen Henderson and Thomas Griffith will review D.C. [read post]
15 Sep 2017, 3:14 pm by Jon Katz
Virginia law requires jailers to check the immigration status of inmates. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 5:11 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Turning to our top story, a local police chief and school board member have resigned after Miss Black Texas 2016, who was a student at Texas A&M commerce and an intern at the Hunt County District Attorney's office, ironically was arrested for refusing to apologize after the school board member allegedly called her a black bitch in the Wal-Mart parking lot. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 4:36 am by Edith Roberts
” Commentary comes from Ken Jost at Jost on Justice, who observes that jurors “may bring other kinds of bias into the jury room, but those cases are no reason to back away from one limited safeguard against the racial discrimination that still pervades criminal justice in the United States,” and from Mark Joseph Stern in Slate, who asks how, if Chief Justice John Roberts does not recognize the pernicious effects of racial bias in this case, Roberts can “ever again… [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 3:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
See New York Times coverage, a letter sent by DOJ to chief justices and court administrators chastising them for using arrest warrants for collections, and here's more background from the DOJ. [read post]