Tag: justice
Juvenile detention officer arrested for civil rights violations resulting in teen’s...
“By and through this bounty system, Johnson caused, encouraged and induced juvenile detainees, in exchange for rewards and privileges, to forcibly assault.”
Bill Cosby guilty of sexual assault charges
Accused of sexually assaulting at least 50 women during his decades-long career, the jury in his retrial found him guilty Thursday of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
Special needs school fires educators for mocking autistic child on audio...
Instead of expressing a modicum of compassion for the special needs student, his teacher and a teacher’s aide incessantly derided the boy and his condition with open disdain.
Man framed by police for murder awarded $10M in damages
Trulove was initially sentenced to 50 years in prison for the murder before his release in 2015.
Red for Ed: The teachers’ red state revolt rolls on
The teachers' strikes today are part of a national revolt that has been growing for months, arcing from one red state to another.
Spending a night in the Concord jail when Martin Luther King,...
On the evening of April 4, 1968, an hour or so after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, I was in a jail cell in Concord, Mass., writing a freshman paper about King, Gandhi and Thoreau.
Video shows off-duty officer punching unarmed man
“They should have terminated him, quite frankly. I mean, period.”
Texas school district threatens suspension for student protests; universities respond, ‘peaceful...
Individual admissions officials took to Twitter to let students know that joining such demonstrations wouldn't "affect their college acceptance decisions."
As Congress feeds the merchants of death, the people must divest
If neither major political party will stand up to this status quo, what can be done?
Former USA Gymnastics doctor sentenced to 175 years in prison
“Larry is a hardened and determined sexual predator ... the most dangerous type of abuser."
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New law requires clothing companies in California to have recycling program in place by...
Companies producing clothing, bedding, towels and upholstery are now mandated by law to administer and fund the repair, reuse and recycling of their products statewide.
World told act now or face 136 years of hunger, report warns
The report blames the combined crises of conflict, climate change, high food prices and mounting debt, all of which are denying billions of people the right to adequate food.
‘Should shame the world’: Famine takes hold in Gaza as Israel cuts off food...
Israel's obstruction of humanitarian assistance and repeated attacks on aid convoys have sparked catastrophe in the Palestinian enclave.
Ex-State Dept. official: Israel is starving Gaza now. We can’t wait another 30 days...
We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned last October over the push to increase arms sales to Israel.
The first gas utility sued for climate deception
The company has portrayed gas as “safe, clean, and environmentally friendly,” despite the fact that methane, its primary component, is 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.