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Posted inCriminal Justice

Neighborhood security stopped 3 young Black males; A federal judge is weighing a lawsuit over it

Lawyers representing police officers who are accused of racially profiling and pulling guns on several young Black males who were searching for a lost dog argued in federal court Wednesday that the officers didn’t violate the constitution and are entitled to qualified immunity from the civil rights claims.  The case, brought as part of the […]

Posted inCriminal Justice

Louisiana leads nation in percentage of people in adult prisons for crimes they committed as kids

A new report by the national non-profit Human Rights for Kids has found that the degree to which the United States punishes crimes committed by kids is far out of line with international standards, calling the mass incarceration of children as adults “one of the largest government-sanctioned human rights abuses against children in the world […]