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Bill Moyers on Justice
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Moyers was honored as TCR’s 2018 “Justice Media Trailblazer.” Watch the video of his remarks at the Feb 15, 2018 John Jay College dinner here.
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As authorities announce first-degree murder and terrorism charges against the 15-year-old Michigan school shooter, lawmakers are taking this time to reignite the debate to arm teachers in schools, while others are advocating for stricter gun policies.
The pursuit of profit is “inextricably intertwined” with America’s system of carceral labor, and criminal punishment, according to a forthcoming paper in the Wisconsin Law Review.
In a comparison of views from Louisville, KY, and Oklahoma City, residents agree that tackling the rising crime rates are more important than police reform at this time. This comes as Louisville residents are still reeling from Breonna Taylor’s death, and Oklahoma City battles the highest mortality rate from police violence in the country.
A long-time criminal tried to sell one of 13 items stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston to a local jeweler who is now hoping to solve the case for a $10 million reward.
The leading single cause of jail inmate fatalities was suicide, reports the Bureau of Justice Statistics. At the same time, the number of deaths in state and federal prisons decreased slightly between 2001 and 2019, despite a sharp rise in homicides.
Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles affiliate said that a hacker recently compromised information for 400,000 patients in a ransomware attack, but it did not believe that the data had been used for “fraudulent purposes.”
Hundreds, in not thousands, of armor-piercing grenades, hundreds of pounds of plastic explosives, as well as land mines and rockets have been stolen from or lost by the U.S. armed forces over the past decade, emerging in the civilian world and endangering people’s lives, reports the Associated Press.
Clogs in the talent pipeline are leaving federal cybersecurity officials, cash-strapped local governments, and big businesses even more susceptible to hacking and ransomware attacks, the House Committee on Homeland Security was told this week.
Approximately 15,000 immigrants were in detention when Biden took office, the lowest number in decades, but that number has since risen as high as 29,000.
For the last fiscal year, the IRS-Criminal Investigation Department initiated 2,581 investigations, recommending 1,982 potential defendants for trial.
While the Justice Department publishes an annual report documenting missing and murdered Indigenous people, it is acknowledging this year that “a lack of consistent and current data” exists.
Officials said the program is a recognition that the way mental health crises are currently handled by law enforcement is “unacceptable.”
Some 70 of the 210 inmates approved for medical parole under the current system, started in 2014, could be put back behind bars due to a change in federal rules.
Proponents see the facilities as pragmatic, life-saving tools for stopping some of the record-breaking overdose rates currently plaguing the United States.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling by two of its judges, and left intact a ban on magazines holding more than 10 bullets. The decision may now go to the Supreme Court.
Moyers was honored as TCR’s 2018 “Justice Media Trailblazer.” Watch the video of his remarks at the Feb 15, 2018 John Jay College dinner here.