Tag "Prison Industrial Complex"
Cops Beat an Innocent Man, Tried to Lock Him Away for 5 Years — Until Chilling Dashcam Footage Saved Him
NEW JERSEY — A disturbing video has surfaced showing officers pounding an innocent man in his face while yelling “Stop resisting!” Police originally claimed that Marcus Jeter of Bloomfield, NJ
STUDY: Officers Involved in Half of Reported Sexual Assaults in Prison
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has released a new study showing that at least 51% of the reported sexual assaults in prison involve guards and staff. The guards and
“You Should Have Shot the Son of a Bitch” — Listen to Police Joke About Murdering Black Activist
Alternet | by Aviva Stahl Ojore Lutalo, a Black Liberation activist who had formerly spent nearly three decades in prison, was traveling on an Amtrak train back to his home in
50% of Black Males and 40% of White Males Arrested by Age 23: Major Study
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: A major new study has revealed disturbing insights into how many young American males are now being arrested across the nation. According to the study, nearly
American Citizen Labeled “Trash,” Hanged to Death in Police Custody
UPDATE: Cops File Restraining Order Against Coroner, Prevent Further Investigation into Hanging Death Zachary Goldson was called “trash” by police and found to be hanged to death in their custody.
BREAKING: Another Government Chemist Accused of Deception, Over 180,000 Cases Now Need Review
BOSTON — The Annie Dookhan deception continues to unfold. Dookhan was a government chemist who tampered with thousands of cases, creating fake “evidence” that caused the imprisonment of countless innocent Americans.
Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases, Locking Countless Innocent Americans in Prison
UPDATE 1/3/16 – Multiple Victims Don’t Know They Were Affected by the Fake Lab Results Years after government chemist Annie Dookhan faked evidence against thousands of Americans, there is still
Store Owner Catches Cops Out of Control, Films a Year’s Worth of Abuse and Brutality
“Law enforcement officers now are part of the revenue gathering system. The ranks of cops are in competition with one another and intra-departmentally. It becomes a game. Policing isn’t about
WATCH: Police Tortured Him, Isolated Him From the Outside World, and Made Him Kill Himself — The Kalief Browder Story
2013/11/22 “You just took over three years of my life.” NEW YORK — A young teenager spent three years in the infamously violent Rikers Island prison complex without ever being
USA: Number of Prisoners Now Exceeds High School Teachers and Engineers
If sitting in a prison cell was a job, it would be one of the most common jobs in the United States. In 2012, there were some 1,570,000 inmates in state and
