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The Appeal is a nonprofit criminal justice publication providing critical news and commentary on local criminal justice systems.

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    26. apr.

    The New Orleans DA prosecutes an alarmingly high number of children as adults. With its juvenile detention center over-capacity, the city holds many children in adult jail - with devastating consequences, such as the death by suicide of a 15-year-old boy.

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    One of the officers who attacked my client last fall in Brooklyn was wearing a “don’t tread on me” shirt.

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    A police officer wearing a t-shirt with a white supremacist symbol & the grim reaper holding a rifle & police badge seen in DC Superior Court is just part of a larger phenomenon of white supremacists working within police departments across the US.

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    In LA, racist police gangs flourish in the LAPD & LASD. Police & sheriff’s deputies sport tattoos signifying membership, get additional tattoos to signify the number of people they have killed, flash gang signs & tag buildings to mark their territory.

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    26. apr.

    The New Orleans DA prosecutes an alarmingly high number of children as adults. With its juvenile detention center over-capacity, the city holds many children in adult jail - with devastating consequences, such as the death by suicide of a 15-year-old boy.

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    26. apr.

    Joe Biden isn't very good at apologizing. While he may have come close to some approximation of one for his role in engineering mass incarceration, his drafting the 1994 Crime Bill was not a "mistake," but political strategy designed to defeat the GOP.

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    25. apr.

    While violence & horrific living conditions go unchecked in Alabama's prisons, leaders of non-violent prisoner organizations have been placed in solitary confinement without cause. Their only means of protest? Hunger strikes.

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    25. apr.

    Every time you get a prescription filled, it is tracked by the state - including police departments - under Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Public health experts worry this surveillance has a chilling effect on patients & providers.

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    25. apr.

    Antonio May was booked into Fulton County Jail on trespass charges, on what deputies dubbed "Taser Tuesday." When he asked for water, he was instead tased, pepper-sprayed, then placed in a restraint chair, where he became unconscious. He died that night.

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    24. apr.

    This history includes LA County sheriff's deputies' gangs. These gangs have organized membership with matching names like “Jump Out Boys” and “Grim Reapers” & tattoos. Their sole purpose is to perpetrate violence against the people they police.

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    24. apr.

    Since being sworn in as LA County Sheriff, Alex Villanueva has rehired sheriff's deputies fired for criminal conduct such as child abuse, domestic violence & having sex with prisoners. It's part of a history of corruption & brutality within the department.

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    23. apr.

    Dennis Tuttle was shot & killed during a no-knock raid led by Houston police officer Gerald Goines. Now an examination of arrest data shows 94% of people Goines arrested were Black & a majority of cases involved less than 1 gram of controlled substances.

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    22. apr.

    Two jails in Missouri recently introduced costly video technology in place of in-person visits. It’s part of a disturbing nation-wide trend: 74 percent of jails who have adopted video calls have subsequently banned in-person visitation.

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    23. apr.

    When Racheal Stirling reported her rape to the NYPD, it was the beginning of a two-year ordeal that left her re-traumatized. She's not alone. The department's handling of sexual assault cases is so bad, many women stop co-operating with investigations.

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    Prosecutors often claim it is difficult to bring hate crime charges, but in Pennsylvania, Robbie Sanderson, a 52 year old Black man, was recently charged with a hate crime for simply calling the police officer who arrested him a Nazi.

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    Brenda Andrews was found guilty of killing her husband. Oklahoma prosecutors used evidence of her sexual infidelity to argue she should be sentenced to death. A jury agreed. Last year, the US Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal & she awaits execution.

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    “You’re asking prisoners to police each other, to turn each other in and it basically makes everyone a suspect. … It just seems like a bad idea from beginning to end.”

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    New NYPD data show that in 2018 the department closed nearly 500 rape cases due to an alleged lack of participation from victims and had a declining clearance rate for rape, raising questions over its handling of sexual assault.

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    25. apr.

    Antonio May, a 32 year-old father of three, died in the Fulton County Jail in September after deputies pepper-sprayed and shot him with a Taser.

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    17. apr.

    For more stories on women who have survived physical and sexual violence, only to be punished by the criminal justice system, please see .

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    17. apr.

    Please note: Michelle Benjamin was released on parole in February, 2019, and Catina Curley was acquitted, after being granted a new trial in March 2019.

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