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Obama’s DOJ Says It One More Time: Private Prisons Aren’t Working
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Courts could be a firewall if Trump seeks to expand presidential powers
President-elect Donald Trump speaks Dec. 13 at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center during his thank you tour. Donald Trump is moving into a White House that has seen presidential powers markedly expanded by its previous two occupants.
Corporate Money Fuels the New Jim Crow
On September 9th, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, over 20,000 prisoners across 24 states began the largest prison strike in United States history against what Michelle Alexander calls “the New Jim Crow”. In a criminal justice system where the 13th Amendment allows the forced labor of human beings convicted of crimes, these inmates have been pushed to the brink and are now taking a stand against unsafe living conditions and unfair labor practices.
Death sentences decline sharply as public attitudes shift
Only 30 people were sentenced to death in the United States this year, the lowest number since the early 1970s and a further sign of the steady decline in use of the death penalty. The number is a sharp drop from the 49 death sentences last year and just a fraction of the peak of 315 in 1996, according to a report from the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization that opposes capital punishment and tracks the issue.
The Latest: Man held for death of ex-reality show contestant
San Francisco appointed a deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday to head the city police department as it deals with a number of racially charged issues. San Francisco named a new police chief, an African-American police veteran who officials and community activists hope can reform a troubled department marred by fatal police shootings of minorities.
Caitlin looks just like her mother in throwback family photos
Pop icon to the rescue! Richard Marx helps take down deranged passenger in epic four-hour battle involving tasers and a rope in the skies over China after crazed man started attacking hostesses Return to mother Russia: Murdered ambassador’s widow and mother weep over his coffin as he arrives in Moscow to a full military guard of honour after being gunned down before his wife’s eyes in Turkey Near miss as Jumbo jet takes a wrong turn after takeoff from LAX airport and flies into the path of another plane On a health kick? Eat PURPLE food: From fighting cancer to weight loss, 5 reasons this color is so good for you – and 5 ways to eat it China claims to have a working version of NASA’s impossible engine orbiting the Earth – and will use it in satellites ‘imminently’ Dinner to die for: Photographer recreates the last meal chosen by every death row prisoner who was executed in 2016 ‘I do NOT … (more)
Stella Maxwell and ‘pregnant’ Irina Shayk make sidewalk their…
Pop icon to the rescue! Richard Marx helps take down deranged passenger in epic four-hour battle involving tasers and a rope in the skies over China after crazed man started attacking hostesses Return to mother Russia: Murdered ambassador’s widow and mother weep over his coffin as he arrives in Moscow to a full military guard of honour after being gunned down before his wife’s eyes in Turkey Near miss as Jumbo jet takes a wrong turn after takeoff from LAX airport and flies into the path of another plane On a health kick? Eat PURPLE food: From fighting cancer to weight loss, 5 reasons this color is so good for you – and 5 ways to eat it China claims to have a working version of NASA’s impossible engine orbiting the Earth – and will use it in satellites ‘imminently’ Dinner to die for: Photographer recreates the last meal chosen by every death row prisoner who was executed in 2016 ‘I do NOT … (more)
Georgia leads nation in number of executions as Texas slows
Georgia led the nation this year in the number of inmates put to death, an anomaly that’s due at least in part to executions in Texas dipping into single digits for the first time in 20 years. With nine lethal injections in 2016, Georgia accounted for nearly half of the 20 executions nationwide.
GOP again eyes ban on sanctuary cities due to political tide
Texas Republicans have spent years trying to crack down on illegal immigration across the southern border with Mexico. Emboldened by the election of Donald Trump, however, the time may finally be right for the GOP to mobilize an assault on loosely defined “sanctuary cities,” especially with two large counties eyeing such policies.
Action needed to guide US regional priorities
In this April 2009 photo, President of the United States Barack Obama speaks with then Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper , and then Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding , at the Summmit of the Americas in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. The US has passed a new law in December 2016 that will form the basis for its foreign policy with the Caribbean.
Filling IA billets a top priority for the Navy
As the Navy transitions individual augmentee duty into the job-assignment process, some sailors may find their only option for their next duty station is downrange, sailors were told Thursday at the Navy’s Career Management Symposium here. “Over the next five to seven months, [global war on terrorism support assignments] are our first priority until they get filled up,” said Command Master Chief Kenneth Ellenburg, aviation team command master chief liaison for the Navy Personnel Command’s Center for Personal and Professional Development in Millington, Tenn.