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The First Step Act Freed People – Now Prosecutors Are Trying to Lock Some of Them Up Again

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|Date: August 02, 2019
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The First Step Act Freed People – Now Prosecutors Are Trying to Lock Some of Them Up Again

By Sarah Lustbader Monae Davis, a beneficiary of the First Step Act, left prison on March 7. “Now the U.S ...

By Sarah Lustbader Monae Davis, a beneficiary of the First Step Act, left prison on March 7. “Now the U.S. Justice Department is trying to lock him back up,” reports Andy Sullivan for Reuters. As Davi ...

August 02, 2019
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State DOJ Report Analyzes Use of Force in Sac PD

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|Date: January 30, 2019
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State DOJ Report Analyzes Use of Force in Sac PD

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the release of a California Department of Just ...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the release of a California Department of Justice (DOJ) report on use of force-related polices, training, and practices within the Sacramento ...

January 30, 2019
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How An Overstretched Deportation System Has Become Even Less Fair

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|Date: June 30, 2018
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How An Overstretched Deportation System Has Become Even Less Fair

By Katrina Eiland Let’s say you came to this country as a 3-year-old with your parents and overstayed you ...

By Katrina Eiland Let’s say you came to this country as a 3-year-old with your parents and overstayed your visa. You felt American. You graduated from high school and college, and you fell in love wit ...

June 30, 2018
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DOJ Reverses Course on Debtors’ Prisons

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|Date: December 29, 2017
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DOJ Reverses Course on Debtors’ Prisons

By Nusrat Choudhury During the holiday season, many of us think about what we can do to help people strug ...

By Nusrat Choudhury During the holiday season, many of us think about what we can do to help people struggling with poverty. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on the other hand, decided just before Chri ...

December 29, 2017
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Former Officer’s Guilty Verdict for Killing Walter Scott Is the Exception, Not the Rule

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|Date: December 08, 2017
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Former Officer’s Guilty Verdict for Killing Walter Scott Is the Exception, Not the Rule

By Shaundra Young Scott Police officer Michael Slager shot and killed an unarmed Black man, Walter Scott, ...

By Shaundra Young Scott Police officer Michael Slager shot and killed an unarmed Black man, Walter Scott, in 2015, and it was all caught on video. Today he was sentenced by a federal judge to 20 years ...

December 08, 2017
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Justice Department Continues to Roll Back Civil Rights Protections

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|Date: November 21, 2017
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Justice Department Continues to Roll Back Civil Rights Protections

By Jesselyn McCurdy On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions strongly hinted that he isn’t done trying t ...

By Jesselyn McCurdy On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions strongly hinted that he isn’t done trying to roll back the civil rights gains made during the Obama administration. In a speech before the ...

November 21, 2017
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ACLU Supports the Appointment of a Special Prosecutor

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|Date: May 12, 2017
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ACLU Supports the Appointment of a Special Prosecutor

By Anthony D. Romero May 9, 2017 — has the potential to be one of the most consequential days in the hist ...

By Anthony D. Romero May 9, 2017 — has the potential to be one of the most consequential days in the history of the United States and our experiment in constitutional democracy since the Watergate sca ...

May 12, 2017
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Officer Pleads Guilty in the South Carolina Death of Walter Scott

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|Date: May 03, 2017
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Officer Pleads Guilty in the South Carolina Death of Walter Scott

Back in December, a Charleston jury deadlocked in the case of Michael Slager, who shot and killed Walter ...

Back in December, a Charleston jury deadlocked in the case of Michael Slager, who shot and killed Walter Scott. The jury hung 11-1 for guilt, forcing the mistrial. The case happened on April 4, 2015, ...

May 03, 2017
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Monday Night Massacre?

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|Date: January 31, 2017
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Monday Night Massacre?

In what critics are likening to former President Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973, Presi ...

In what critics are likening to former President Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973, President Trump acted quickly to fire acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who had served as deputy ...

January 31, 2017
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Dawn of a New Era

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|Date: January 23, 2017
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Dawn of a New Era

Starting on Friday and continuing over the weekend, millions of people came out to protest the new Trump ...

Starting on Friday and continuing over the weekend, millions of people came out to protest the new Trump presidency. While some have called this a historic moment – and in some ways it is – I am real ...

January 23, 2017
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The Trouble with Jeff Sessions as Attorney General

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|Date: November 23, 2016
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The Trouble with Jeff Sessions as Attorney General

By Michael Waldman Donald Trump just picked Sen. Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, to be his nominee ...

By Michael Waldman Donald Trump just picked Sen. Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, to be his nominee for the next Attorney General of the United States. That’s unsettling news for anyone who cares ...

November 23, 2016
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Analysis: What Trump Means for Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: November 10, 2016
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Analysis: What Trump Means for Criminal Justice Reform

The election of Trump on Tuesday probably stalls, if not outright reverses, criminal justice reform gains ...

The election of Trump on Tuesday probably stalls, if not outright reverses, criminal justice reform gains across the country. We have already laid out Trump’s view on the death penalty and, in particu ...

November 10, 2016
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DOJ Sides with Former Officer in False Claims Suit

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|Date: October 29, 2016
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DOJ Sides with Former Officer in False Claims Suit

The Justice Department has weighed in on the side of a Boston area law enforcement whistleblower in a gro ...

The Justice Department has weighed in on the side of a Boston area law enforcement whistleblower in a groundbreaking False Claims Act lawsuit. United States ex rel. Ken E. Williams v. City of Brockton ...

October 29, 2016
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DOJ Calls For End of Private-Prison Contracts; ICE Must Do the Same

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|Date: August 24, 2016
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DOJ Calls For End of Private-Prison Contracts; ICE Must Do the Same

By Carl Takei In a bluntly-worded memo issued last week, the U.S. Department of Justice directed the Fede ...

By Carl Takei In a bluntly-worded memo issued last week, the U.S. Department of Justice directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to begin phasing out all of its contracts with private prisons. Private p ...

August 24, 2016
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DOJ Argues Bail Schedules Unconstitutional, as Studies Reveal How Discriminatory Bail Is

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|Date: August 23, 2016
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DOJ Argues Bail Schedules Unconstitutional, as Studies Reveal How Discriminatory Bail Is

The US Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in a Georgia case last week, challenging the use of fi ...

The US Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in a Georgia case last week, challenging the use of financial bail. The DOJ back in February of 2015 argued “that bail practices that incarcerate in ...

August 23, 2016
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Documents Show DOJ Admitting that StingRays Spy on Innocent Bystanders

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|Date: November 08, 2015
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Documents Show DOJ Admitting that StingRays Spy on Innocent Bystanders

by Linda Lye Documents recently obtained by the ACLU of Northern California from the Department of Justic ...

by Linda Lye Documents recently obtained by the ACLU of Northern California from the Department of Justice confirm concerns about the federal government’s use of StingRays – a highly intrusive cell ph ...

November 08, 2015
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