2015/12/03 Amanda Froelich | True Activist 44 years after being sentenced to prison, Otis has emerged to find a very different world. In the 70’s, at the age of 25, Otis Johnson went to jail for the attempted murder of a police officer. When he was released – 44 years later, he was 69 and … Read more
Max Chantha | November 7, 2015 WASHINGTON – While an automated policing system that predicts where and when crime will occur sounds like an Orwellian fantasy, it may be closer to reality than we think. Seattle’s fledgling Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) is an automated system that aims to predict crimes based on merging historical … Read more
2015/11/05 A New Mexico judge is in the news for the second time. Just three months ago Judge Christina Argyres was criticized for letting a first-degree murder suspect, Selmonio Davis, roam free on the streets of Albuquerque without paying a single cent as bond. The pre-trial services had originally suggested a $250,000 cash-only bond. … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Washington, D.C. — The evidence is undisputable. Cannabis is an incredibly beneficial plant with medical applications that humanity has only begun to explore. Its harmful side effects are nearly non-existent, and no evidence to date has shown that anyone has ever died from it. The evidence is undisputable. … Read more
A classic case of prisoners’ dilemma has landed two DeKalb County sheriff’s officers in trouble. Fifty-year-old Lieutenant Leonard Dreyer was indicted on federal charges this week for encouraging one of his subordinates to use extreme and unnecessary force against a prison inmate. Not only this, he is also accused of obstructing Justice and making false … Read more
by William Grigg | Pro Libertate On occasion, government-employed police can solve a crime of violence – assuming that the act is captured on video, the offender makes a point of mugging for the camera in close-up, and the clip is disseminated to a large social media audience. Closing the case is even easier when the … Read more
It is no secret American jails are going through a crisis of epic proportions. From inmates who are ill treated to overcrowded facilities – there is not much that is working for the prison system. Ironically, the worst affected are those who need the most care. Many in our jails are waiting to be transferred … Read more
2015/09/27 Latandra Ellington had been in prison for 15 months. With only seven months to go on her sentence she was waiting impatiently to be reunited with her four children. However, something disturbing was playing on the 36-year-old’s mind. In a letter she wrote to her family, she confessed having witnessed a prison guard Patrick Quercioli … Read more
The film How to Make Money Selling Drugs sent shockwaves through the nation back in 2013. It gave us an unforgettably disturbing insight into how the “War on Drugs” is quite literally a war against people. Now the film’s director, Matthew Cooke, is back. And his new film is taking on the prison industrial complex. Survivors … Read more
Matthew Cooke | MatthewCooke.com “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…” That’s the 4th Amendment in our bill of rights. During the Colonial era, the King of England looked at the American colonies as a financial investment. And … Read more
by Matthew Cooke | MatthewCooke.com The feeling many citizens have when they see a cop is paranoia. Am I going to get in trouble? This is not an unfounded feeling. The US has the largest prison population on the planet. This is not because Americans are somehow more evil than other people on Earth. The NY … Read more
2015/07/20 FLORIDA — A deeply unsettling report has been leaked according to which an officer used his finger to rip out a citizen’s eyeball. The citizen, Kelly Bradley, was in a jail cell at the time, hiding underneath a blanket. He was not trying to fight with the five officers who barged into the cell … Read more