May 2012
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A new report finds more than 2,000 people were...
theweekmagazine:
50: Percent who are black
10.7: Average time, in years, from conviction to exoneration
10,000: Combined time, in years, the 891 exonerated prisoners spent behind bars
1,170: Convicted defendants cleared in 13 “group exonerations” since 1995, following large police-corruption scandals, usually involving planted drugs or guns
25 years of wrongful convictions, by the numbers
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Random Acts of Chaos: Justice in this country. →
inothernews:
Set up webcam in your roommate’s dorm in the hopes of catching him in the act of having intimate relations with a man, then telling your friends all about it in a “Eeeew, look, he’s GAY!” manner, leading your roommate to kill himself by jumping off a bridge: sentenced to 30…
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“Fear is why these men “officially” investigate Girl Scouts while perversely...”
– A Message to Girls About Religious Men Who Fear You contributed by Soraya Chemaly on Government in The Lab (via faboomama)
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and... →
theamericanbear:
A timely piece:
In all these law enforcement schemes the alleged terrorist masterminds end up seeming, when the full story comes out, unable to terrorize their way out of a paper bag without law enforcement tutelage. (“They teach you how to make all this stuff out of simple household items,” one of the kids says on a recording quoted in the FBI affidavit about a book he has...
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“Remember the housing meltdown ? Tough to forget isn’t it. The formula for...”
– blog maverick (via azspot)
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We give prison sentences for smoking marijuana,... →
anticapitalist:
About half of our world-leading prison population is in jail for non-violent drug offenses. Americans have also been arrested for handing out free food in a park. Mothers in Ohio and Connecticut were jailed for enrolling their kids in out-of-district schools. As of 2003 in California there were 344 individuals serving sentences of 25 years or more for shoplifting as a third...
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Marissa Alexander gets 20-year sentence →
grrlyman:
Last weekend, Melissa examined the case against Marissa Alexander, the Jacksonville mother of three who fired a single bullet into her kitchen ceiling two years ago to warn her husband, Rico Gray, against continuing his physical attack on her. Gray, who reacted in violent anger after discovering that Alexander texted pictures of their newborn child to her ex-husband,spoke out earlier...
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Towards an Enlightened & Sustainable World:... →
enlighteningnews:
Colleges’ withholding of transcripts of graduates who’ve fallen behind on loan payments makes it even less likely that the student can get a job and resume loan payments.
Students traditionally have a soft spot for their alma maters. But as growing numbers of students run up debt in the high five…
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School Officials Accuse Black Women of Cheating on... →
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kinetic-earth:
(Reuters) - A federal lawsuit against a Florida school district alleges two black women who scored well on an adult skills test in 2010 were accused of cheating because, they were told, “you people don’t score that high.”
Florida is an asshole.
So we can give Florida back to Spain right?
…right?
We have the receipt I think
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“A culture dominated by commercial messages that tells individuals that the way...”
– Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse (via azspot)
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