"Wherever there is homelessness and housing insecurity, there is violence. So I think anybody who is concerned about crime in a city like Chicago should look at homelessness as a contributing factor."
Perhaps the most salient point about witch trials is gender. Witch trials weren’t just about baseless accusations. They were also about a justice system that escalated local grievances to capital offenses and targeted a subjugated group.
By 2010, the evidence about how interrogations can go wrong had become so compelling that Kassin and several colleagues from the U.S. and U.K. wrote an American Psychological Association white paper warning about the risk of coercion.
Excerpt from Flint Taylor's new book "The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago"
This has happened in full view of the world for 30 years while he sold 100 million albums, opened the winter Olympics. ... It all happened as everybody watched and nobody did anything." - Jim DeRogatis
Stephen Colbert Gets His Mueller Report. A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Fox Town Hall with Bernie Sanders. When They See Us | Central Park Five Documentary. What If Fox News Covered Trump the Way It Covered Obama?
Based on a true story that gripped the country, When They See Us will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color, labeled the Central Park Five, who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. The four part limited series will focus on the five teenagers from Harlem -- Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise. Beginning in the spring of 1989, when the teenagers were first questioned about the incident, the series will span 25 years, highlighting their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement reached with the city of New York in 2014.
The 2020 Democratic campaign is already shaping up to be a battle of big ideas. But when it comes to reforming our criminal legal system, the conversation hasn’t been as visionary — in fact, it’s been almost exclusively backward looking.
Manafort showed no remorse. He lied to prosecutors. He refused to cooperate with the investigators. He had shared secret information with Russians. But Paul Manafort is white.
With a few limited exceptions, correctional practice today remains underpinned by retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation. These realities beg the question: isn’t there another way? We have failed to ask this question with sufficient seriousness
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