Senate Subcommittee Releases Report on Uncounted Deaths in America’s Prisons and Jails

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1. Senate Subcommittee Releases Report on Uncounted Deaths in America’s Prisons and Jails

A US Senate Subcommittee released a report Tuesday morning, “Uncounted Deaths in America’s Prisons & Jails: How the Department of Justice Failed to Implement the Death in Custody Reporting Act.”? The committee was chaired by Georgia Senator Jon Offsoff (Democrat) and Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (Republican) was the ranking member.

2. Syed’s Convictions Vacated after 23 Years in Prison – Prosecution Hid Evidence

When a judge Monday vacated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed after 23 years in prison, the Innocence Project called it a “stark example of how the concealment of exculpatory evidence…leads to wrongful convictions.”

3. The Road to Hell Is through the Halls of the Sacramento Family Court…

Child support in America is a hypocrisy. It purports to ensure economic stability of children, when in fact many of the policies unfairly criminalize, devastate, oppress and marginalize the poor and the vulnerable. Low-income, noncustodial fathers of color face the most devastating consequences.

4. Clemency Petition Filed on Behalf of Disabled Man on Oklahoma Death Row Claims Execution Would Be ‘Inhumane Spectacle’

“Mercilessly executing a man this disabled would be an inhumane spectacle beneath our individual and collective dignity,” argued Assistant Federal Public Defenders Thomas Hird and Katrina Conrad-Legler, in their petition for clemency regarding the case of Benjamin Cole Friday.

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