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On one night in 1996, in Rome, Georgia, 15-year-old Brian Bowling was talking on the phone to his girlfriend, telling her about how his friend Cain
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Times were tough at the Hartford Juvenile Detention Center in 2016. Layoffs had slashed the staff of the Connecticut facility by more than one-third,
INQUEST has published a report revealing new data and sharing the harrowing stories of 22 Black and racially minoritised people whose deaths in
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In 2000, 18-year-old Baltimore man Adnan Syed was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in 1999. Syed was sentenced to life in
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A Canadian senator says the Trudeau government can no longer wait to address the alarming number of Indigenous women filling Canadian
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Laws are supposed to protect us. At work, they should eliminate unsafe working conditions and harassment. On our streets, they should curb speeding,
Press Release – Civicus 4 March 2022 CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, and Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) are gravely concerned by
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“For too many years, law enforcement in Philadelphia have treated Black and Brown people like they are expendable,” said criminal lawyer Michael
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Two Saulteaux sisters serving life for murder are two of the record number of Indigenous women in this country’s prisons. They are part of a new
Rape victims in London have said they were “not believed” and were “belittled” by police, according to a new review which showed the number
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At a debate hosted by the NYU Politics Society on Wednesday, NYU’s College Democrats and College Republicans faced off over for-profit prisons,
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Annie Polite poses for a portrait outside the Glynn County Courthouse on Thursday, November 11, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga. (Elijah Nouvelage for CNN) By
Imagine growing up as a kid and your parents having to explain to you that certain people won’t like you just because of your skin color. As you
Citizens often send messages to the President of the European Parliament (or to the institution’s public portal) expressing their views on current
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El Salvador is currently in the midst of an ongoing conflict which will determine if the judicial branch in the country has any remaining ability