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Oct 21, 2024 · For Donald Trump, immigrants bring crime. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said during his 2015 campaign announcement. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.
The Problem With Labeling Trump a ‘Felon’ - The Marshall Project
Jul 25, 2024 · Since Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, gleeful headlines have sprouted across the media, with a new descriptor for the former president: “felon.”. The New York Times editorial board condemned him under the pithy banner: “Donald Trump, Felon.”. The Washington Post ran an analysis by senior political reporter Aaron Blake headlined: “Trump is a felon.
I Got A Life Sentence At 17. Then I Was Raped In Prison.
Nov 1, 2018 · O nce I got to prison, I was dealing with extreme guilt over my aunt’s death, and fear, because I was still a child and felt desperately alone. I continued to act out, like the teenager I was, by committing all the standard rule infractions, among them insolence to staff and possession of contraband.
Kamala Harris’ Complex Record as Prosecutor: What to Know | The ...
Jul 27, 2024 · What These Decisions Tell Us About Kamala Harris’ Approach to Criminal Justice From the death penalty to school truancy and diversion programs, here are some key steps Harris took as a district attorney and attorney general.
Efforts to Ease Federal Prison Overcrowding Are Ending | The …
Jan 6, 2024 · Federal Prisons Are Over Capacity — Yet Efforts to Ease Overcrowding Are Ending The Bureau of Prisons’ system is in trouble and needs serious upgrades on several fronts.
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Sep 17, 2024 · Drinking during pregnancy can permanently damage the developing baby’s brain, harm that often goes undiagnosed. Cruz’s birth mother drank alcohol virtually every day of the first eight months of her pregnancy and signed hospital paperwork declaring herself an alcoholic.
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Jan 10, 2024 · Meanwhile, state prison populations are rising.The number of people behind bars steadily declined starting in 2013 and then drastically dropped during the pandemic, when states released people to ease dangerous COVID-19 conditions, and court systems slowed.But by 2022, the number of people held in state prisons started to bounce back to over 1 million people.
A Trans Woman’s Battle Reveals Failures of a Landmark Prison …
Oct 9, 2024 · T he first punch to her head knocked Grace Pinson to the floor. She put up her arms to protect her face as Ricki Mahkimetas struck her again. When his fist hit her nose, she felt it crunch. The cells in the special housing unit at the federal penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona, have solid steel doors, making it almost impossible to see what is going on inside.
A Boy Among Men - The Marshall Project
Feb 25, 2015 · John didn’t take these letters seriously; he threw many of them away. He settled into GED classes and shifts serving breakfast and lunch. From the prison library he pulled volumes ranging from the poems of Langston Hughes (“They’re so simple, but they explain so much”) to thriller paperbacks by Dean Koontz and James Patterson.
5 Things to Know About Kamala Harris’ Criminal Justice Record
Jul 21, 2024 · According to Jamilah King, writing for Mother Jones in 2018, “Harris has long tried to bridge the tricky divide between social progressivism and the work required as a prosecutor — sometimes more successfully than others.” One characteristic example: As San Francisco district attorney, Harris vowed not to seek the death penalty, but as …