criminal justice
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NC Police Officer Will Not Face Charges in Fatal Shooting of Keith Lamont Scott
Charlotte, N.C., Police Officer Brentley Vinson will not face any charges for the September shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott, the Charlotte Observer reports. Scott, 43, was shot in a confrontation with officers outside his apartment Sept. 20. District Attorney Andrew Murray said that the evidence shows that Scott had a gun in his hand when he…
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Father of Slain Dallas Police Officer Is Suing Black Lives Matter for Inciting ‘War on Police’
The father of one of the Dallas police officers who were killed back in July is reportedly suing Black Lives Matter and other groups, claiming that organizers incited a “war on police” that resulted in his son’s death, the Star-Telegram reports. According to the report, Enrique Zamarripa filed a 43-page lawsuit in U.S. District Court…
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The Night Of Illuminates Issues of Class and the Justice System
Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers. It can happen to you. That’s the chilling premise behind HBO’s latest edge-of-your-seat limited series The Night Of, which wraps up this Sunday. Based on the BBC series Criminal Justice, the show is a dark, deliberate exploration of what it’s like to unwittingly end up the suspect in a…
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President Obama: 12,000 Inmates to Receive Pell Grants for College Study
Even though Congress banned providing financial aid to prisoners in 1994, as many as 12,000 prison inmates will be able to use federal Pell Grants to finance college classes next month, the White House announced Friday. The $30 million Second Chance Pell Grant pilot program, announced by President Barack Obama, will be available to inmates…
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‘Kalief’s Law’ Passed in NYC to Honor Teen Tortured on Rikers Island
In what could be viewed as some semblance of justice for Kalief Browder, the young man who became the poster child for everything wrong with New York City’s broken criminal-justice system and its jails, the lower house of the New York Legislature recently passed a bill known as “Kalief’s Law” to ensure that persons arrested…