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Students and alums reveal racist culture at top Chicago private school
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Hundreds of stories of racism, xenophobia, and abuse at the Latin School of Chicago have surfaced via an anonymous Instagram account, Latin Survivors.
Commentary
Analysis: The thing about police unions
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Most unions don’t aggressively shield their members from accountability for murder. Police unions are another story.
Alabama Prison Crisis
Alabama prison death highlights pattern of officials promoting bad bosses
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Billy Smith’s 2017 death highlighted broader problems at Elmore Correctional Facility, an overcrowded and understaffed prison with a history of abusive, neglectful managers.
Alabama Prison Crisis
‘They told me he belonged to the state’: Slain Alabama prisoner’s mother kept in dark as her son lay dying
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Her experience echoes other troubling accounts about how Alabama prison officials handle critically injured or sick prisoners and their families during medical crises, and how little they reveal about those cases, even when inmates die.
Alabama Prison Crisis
Alabama prison officials have troubling history of issuing ‘do not resuscitate’ orders without consent
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The family of Marquette Cummings sued the Alabama prison system in 2015 after doctors took him off life support under instructions from a warden.
Alabama Prison Crisis
Secret report: Alabama guards allegedly beat, hog-tied, ignored inmate who later died
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Alabama investigators detailed the brutal events that led to Billy Smith’s death — including dousing him with water while unresponsive and a nurse who refused to treat him.
News
13 states have never exonerated a prisoner based on DNA evidence. Here’s why.
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Criminal justice experts offered several explanations for the 13 outliers, from missing evidence to stringent DNA testing laws and small prison populations.
News
St. Clair judge facing discipline over accusations he lied about contact with murder suspect
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A St. Clair County Circuit judge appeared before a state agency that has powers to discipline him, including removal from the bench, over charges he lied to police and to the investigating state agency over his contacts with a murder suspect. The judge contends it is all a political smear by his enemies.