Cathy Brown

For 42 years I’ve lived in an underworld I by no means knew existed till I turned one of many hundreds of ladies in that world, ladies distrusted by the …

The season is upon us, the annual fetishization of jail meals, public discussions of what prisoners will eat on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Yr’s. It’s change into so customary that …

“In my head there was a chance that it may occur, however I wasn’t trying ahead to—it wasn’t my intention to take action … however I knew I had the …

Georgia Division of Corrections has tightened its efforts to impede the discharge of details about its prisons because it faces report numbers of deaths from homicides, suicides and drug overdoses …

In Mississippi, allegations of jailhouse rape, brutal beatings and corrupt acts by sheriffs and their deputies repeatedly go ignored by the state, even regardless of ample proof, Ilyssa Daly, Jerry …

The U.S. army has determined to place unbiased legal professionals in command of the way it investigates and prosecutes circumstances of sexual assault and different main crimes, sidelining commanders after …

In a first-time joint look The mayors of Chicago, New York Metropolis, and Denver renewed their collective name for the federal authorities to step up assets because the cities close …

The Missouri lady who persuaded a web-based boyfriend to kill her mom after she had pressured her to fake for years that she was affected by leukemia, muscular dystrophy and …

D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab has gained again a key accreditation two years after dropping it following a 2021 scandal wherein an unbiased panel of forensic consultants concluded, amongst different issues, …

The latest dying of “Parasite” actor Lee Solar-kyun highlights South Korea’s crackdown on medication, one which pulls a tough line towards something apart from whole abstinence, John Yoon reports for …

A 14-year-old boy shot and killed his sister in Florida on Christmas Eve after she tried to interrupt up a battle between him and his brother, Jennifer Hassan reports for …

A person in New York Metropolis has been charged with tried homicide and assault as hate crimes after utilizing an anti-white slur after which stabbing two teenage sisters at a …

Colorado authorities, together with the FBI, are investigating doable threats towards state Supreme Court docket justices, one week after the court docket barred former President Donald Trump from the state’s …

A examine from the Well being Coverage Institute of Ohio on the generational results that may affect youngsters of incarcerated mother and father within the state discovered that the incarceration …

The nation’s immigration-court backlog swelled by greater than 1,000,000 circumstances in 2023, rising from 1.9 million circumstances in September 2022 to surpass 3 million circumstances in November, Lauren Villagran reports …

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a invoice simply earlier than Christmas that might have made it simpler for individuals who have pleaded responsible to crimes to problem their convictions, …

Whereas lively shooter coaching varies broadly throughout the nation and that regulation enforcement officers make related errors in mass capturing after mass capturing, these failures will not be all the …

Georgia prosecutors and judges are urging lawmakers to offer extra aggressive pay within the judicial system as a way to higher retain skilled attorneys and judges who’re wanted to clear …

Two weeks after the funeral for Amerie Jo Garza, 10, the primary of the Robb Elementary College college students to be interred following the Uvalde mass taking pictures, I phoned …

As migration from South America to the US-Mexico border as soon as once more surges, advocates warn that sexual violence is likewise anticipated to rise, notably amongst ladies and ladies, …

Prior to now week, there have been virtually 200 swatting incidents on Jewish organizations, and a number of other kids had been arrested for planning assaults on synagogues, exemplifying the …

Investigators in Prague are working to ascertain a motive for a lethal gun rampage that killed 14 individuals and wounded 25 others at Charles College within the heart of town, …

Rising numbers of girls in England are experiencing home abuse at Christmas, with Refuge, the main assist service in England, saying that calls and contacts to the nationwide home abuse …

President Joe Biden is pardoning 1000’s of people that have been convicted of use and easy possession of marijuana on federal lands and within the District of Columbia and granting …

Washington D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has launched laws that will direct the Mayor and police division to maneuver ahead with crime-fighting and gun violence discount methods that nationwide legal …

Aylo Holdings S.A.R.L., the corporate that operates Pornhub and different grownup web sites, acknowledged in federal court docket that it had profited for years from pornographic content material that depicted …

Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is asking on President Biden to take government motion to deal with securing the southern border, urging him to restart a sequence of insurance policies …

In response to juvenile amenities being at full capability and a labor scarcity that worsened throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Louisiana juvenile justice system directors are urging officers to take a …

A federal choose has quickly blocked a California legislation that may have banned the carrying of weapons in most public locations as of January 1st, Brad Brooks reports for Reuters. …

A latest choice by Google to vary the way in which it shops and accesses customers’ opt-in “Location Historical past” in Google Maps, making the information retention interval shorter, and …

An investigation reveals that laws generally known as Kendra’s Regulation, that has been held up as a nationwide mannequin for the remedy and dealing with of the critically mentally in …

Glynn Simmons, a 71-year-old man who spent practically 50 years in jail for homicide, has been exonerated, making him the longest serving inmate to be declared harmless of a criminal …

A federal choose has dominated that the names of 150 recruiters, associates and “associates” of intercourse traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell might be made public after the primary of …

As a part of a serious prisoner swap between the US and Venezuela, Venezuela has arrested Leonard Glenn Francis, the fugitive protection contractor who admitted to a $35 million bribery …

A federal choose has dominated that Rudy Giuliani should instantly pay the $148 million in damages he owes for defaming two Georgia election employees, writing that Giuliani was unlikely to …

A federal chapter choose began the clock on Monday for sexual abuse survivors searching for damages from the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, setting a date of Could 31, 2024, for …

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a measure that enables Texas regulation enforcement officers to arrest migrants who enter the state from Mexico with out authorized authorization, J. David Goodman …

Prosecutors have raided the workplaces of Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Social gathering amid a political funding scandal regarding allegations that occasion officers didn’t declare a mixed 600 million yen ($4.18 …

A human rights activist detained for almost three years in China, has gone on trial in Shandong province charged with “inciting subversion of state energy”, Amy Hawkins reports for The …

The New York Police Division has pledged to finish its follow of not sharing movies in ongoing investigations with the Civilian Criticism Overview Board, Eric Umansky reports for ProPublica. The …

Amid a rise in bias incidents motivated by the Israel-Hamas, locations of worship in New York should now select whether or not to let congregants carry firearms whereas attending providers, …

WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange’s attainable remaining authorized problem to cease his extradition from Britain to the USA the place he’s wished on felony costs can be held at London’s Excessive …

A handful of Canadians are suing the federal authorities as a part of a constitutional problem that argues individuals have a proper to make use of psilocybin for medical causes, …

The political actuality of a US Democracy in disaster is a byproduct, not solely of the grasp storyteller Donald Trump, however extra basically it has to do with each a …

49 Utah ladies who went to Provo police over the past almost two years to report that their OB-GYN had sexually assaulted them throughout examinations skilled delays, confusion and denials …

A southwest Arkansas sheriff has been ordered by a federal decide to surrender all his legislation enforcement duties and steer clear of the sheriff’s workplace following his indictment and arrest …

Regardless of taxpayers spending hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to outfit cops throughout the nation with body-worn cameras, an effort bought as the important thing to transparency and accountability in …

The New York Metropolis Council is anticipated to approve a invoice that might ban solitary confinement, regardless of continued opposition by Mayor Eric Adams and the union representing correction officers, …

The FBI has arrested the founding father of a Neo-Nazi on-line neighborhood that focused underage populations throughout the nation and the globe for abuse, Seamus Hughes reports for Court Watch. …

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the previous head of the workplace of “miracles” that minted saints, was discovered responsible Saturday of three counts of embezzlement and sentenced to 5 years and …

No less than one police officer has been killed and 14 different folks have been injured throughout an operation to regain management of the Tacumbú penitentiary, Paraguay’s largest jail, following …

The seek for a person serving a life sentence in a Texas jail for sexually abusing a baby ended Sunday night time after he was recaptured by police, Michael Bartiromo …

Laws signed by Governor Josh Shapiro will restrict the circumstances below which a non-violent offender on probation may be despatched again to jail and restrict the size of probation, the …

The household of an 11-year-old boy who was shot by police after he referred to as 911 and requested for his or her assist have launched a $5 million federal …

A commodities dealer in Stamford, Connecticut, Freepoint Commodities LLC, has agreed to pay the federal authorities over $98 million to resolve a DOJ investigation into violations of the International Corrupt …

A commodities dealer in Stamford, Connecticut, Freepoint Commodities LLC, has agreed to pay the federal authorities over $98 million to resolve a DOJ investigation into violations of the International Corrupt …

The household of an 11-year-old boy who was shot by police after he referred to as 911 and requested for his or her assist have launched a $5 million federal …

A report from the Justice Division’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that, as of midyear 2022, whereas not less than 30 p.c (or 197,000 individuals) of the jail inhabitants was …

A report from the Justice Division’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that, as of midyear 2022, whereas a minimum of 30 % (or 197,000 individuals) of the jail inhabitants was …

Some 180,000 Mexican migrants, touring in household teams, crossed the border into the U.S. over the 12 months ending in October, 4 occasions greater than the earlier yr and a …

A Denmark terrorism investigation has led to the arrest of two individuals and concentrating on of 4 others in a case that coincided with an arrest within the Netherlands and …

The Supreme Courtroom on Thursday declined to placed on maintain a brand new Illinois legislation prohibiting the possession, manufacture or sale of semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, refusing an emergency …

A psychological well being therapist in Washington D.C. has been indicted by a grand jury for 20 alleged crimes together with felony fraud and first-degree theft for allegedly stealing greater …

A federal report launched in September discovered that there have been 188 college shootings in the course of the 2021-22 educational 12 months, the best in additional than 20 years. …

Federal prosecutors say they plan to retry former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison for violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor and 4 others through the March 2020 police …

Police have undermined the promise of transparency and accountability that accompanied the body-camera motion that started a decade in the past, reports Eric Umansky for the New York Times. Costing …

The Supreme Courtroom has agreed to contemplate whether or not federal prosecutors can cost January 6 riot defendants with a statute that makes it against the law to impede an …

17 individuals suffered minor accidents Wednesday when a person intentionally began a hearth utilizing courtroom papers on the fourth flooring of the New York state supreme courtroom constructing the place …

Three individuals have been arrested in Denmark and one within the Netherlands on suspicion of getting ready a terrorist assault following a coordinated cross-border Danish-German police effort, Louise Breusch Rasmussen …

A surge in fentanyl deaths within the Pacific Northwest, together with amongst youngsters, has prompted leaders in Oregon and Washington to call overdose deaths a prime subject and take aggressive …

17 prisoners incarcerated for varied violent crimes on the California State Jail, Sacramento (New Folsom) graduate Friday from a year-long restorative justice program, the Heart For African Peace and Battle …

Michael Jackson-Bolanos, the person who allegedly fatally stabbed Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll on October twenty first, has been charged with felony homicide dedicated whereas in perpetration or tried perpetration …

Civil rights lawyer and scholar, Sherrilyn Ifill, not too long ago wrote a didactic essay for The New York Review entitled “How America Ends and Begins Once more: As a …

A short lived program in Idaho that homes “dangerously mentally unwell” sufferers, who typically face no legal prices, in prisons has continued for 5 many years, Audrey Dutton reports for …

The White Home is internet hosting practically 100 lawmakers from 39 states on Wednesday to work on how their states can attempt to cut back gun violence following the creation …

A 126-page lawsuit filed by former and at present incarcerated Alabamians, unions and civil rights organizations accuses the Alabama jail labor program system of being a type of modern-day slavery, …

Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist has signed bipartisan laws in Detroit to handle Michigan’s juvenile justice system and spend money on diversion and re-entry companies designed to higher place Michigan …

Two males have been charged by federal prosecutors in Montana with illegally taking pictures about 3,600 birds, together with bald and golden eagles, and promoting them, in addition to their …

An Arlington County physician has been convicted on all however one rely of oxycodone distribution in a 21-count indictment naming her as a part of decade-long drug distribution conspiracy, Salvador …

The household of a person who died after ravenous in an Indiana jail whereas being held in solitary confinement for 3 weeks has secured a $7.25m settlement, Michael Sainato reports …

Thai police have seized an estimated 50 million methamphetamine tablets near the Myanmar border, the nation’s largest haul on document, the Associated Press reports. Myanmar has traditionally been the area’s …

A current report launched by the LA controller revealed that Los Angeles spends almost $50m a 12 months on its police helicopter program, or roughly $3,000 for each hour of …