Injustice Watch (https://www.injusticewatch.org/)
Attorneys for a Chicago man convicted of a 1976 police killing argued before a packed Illinois appellate courtroom Thursday that the prisoner was found guilty and given a sentence of several hundred years by a judge trying to conceal his own corruption.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously voted in favor of a 120-day reprieve for death-row inmate Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday despite significant evidence of his innocence.
Hours after issuing a press release announcing new rules that appeared to prohibit prisoners from being sent news articles printed off the internet, a department spokesman announced the new regulation would be rewritten to clarify that digital news articles would not be banned.
A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants.