The Miami Herald continues to blow the Florida Department of Corrections wide open with their newest investigative series. I-Team investigation into corruption and sexual abuse in the largest women’s prison in the nation, Lowell Correctional.
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COACHELLA, Calif. –
Update Saturday 1:45 p.m. Riverside County Jail Records show 23-year-old Carl James Dial was booked into the Indio jail at 1.46 a.m for several felony charges including arson and a hate crime.
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Suffolk County, NY — James Burke, formerly the Chief of one of the largest police departments in the country, found himself handcuffed and facing federal civil rights charges on December 9th, reports the New York Times. Burke’s arrest follows a lengthy investigation into allegations of torture, assault, subornation of perjury, and corruption in a case involving convicted thief Christopher Loeb.
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This past April, 18-year-old William Chapman II was killed by Portsmouth police officer Stephen Rankin, as he attempted to flee a Wal-Mart after shoplifting. Rankin first discharged his taser on Chapman, and then ended up shooting him in the following scuffle.
“The video was operational up until just before the shooting, and then it was not operational for about 15 seconds,” Attorney Jon Babineau told Pilot Online.
The footage shows Rankin holding the taser and then cuts out. When the footage returns the incident was over, and the taser was laying on the ground.
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(CNN)Gunshots fired into a mosque in Connecticut. Armed men protesting the “Islamization of America” outside Islamic centers in Texas. Death threats called in to mosques in Florida, Maryland and Virginia.
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Ten men filed a complaint against an immigration detention center in California this week, alleging physical abuse, medical neglect, and retaliatory transfers while they were detainees.
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Mental illness is no longer treated by health professionals, but criminalized by the police, a report found. Continue reading
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Holtzclaw was charged with 36 counts of rape, forcible oral sodomy, burglary and other charges.
Shortly after 9 p.m. ET this evening, the jury returned guilty verdicts. It was their fourth day of deliberations. Holtzclaw was not found guilty on some counts, but he was found guilty of enough counts to spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Andy Lopez case: exclusive interview with Attorney Arnoldo Casillas, representing the Lopez family, hearing took place in U.S. District Court Dec. 9th, 2015 in Oakland. Interview by Francisco Lozano. Video Copyrights Francisco Lozano/KBBF 89.1 fm.
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State employee investigated after allegedly hitting, throwing coffee on praying Muslim man
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