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    Longreads

    Timeline: Chicago FOP presidents’ turbulent relationship with race and police reform

    By Emanuella Evans | September 13, 2021

    Injustice Watch reviewed the tenures of past FOP presidents elected by Chicago police, from the civil rights movement to the Black Lives Matter era. We found a history of police union leaders making inflammatory statements, antagonizing racial justice and police reforms, and shielding allegedly brutal cops from accountability.

    The history and harm behind Illinois's criminal HIV transmission law

    Protesters sit and kneel in silence for nearly nine minutes in Chicago on Saturday, July 4, 2020, during the

    Spurred by Black Lives Matter, coverage of police violence is changing

    Alabama prison death highlights pattern of officials promoting bad bosses

    Secret report: Alabama guards allegedly beat, hog-tied, ignored inmate who later died

    Police and Prosecutors

    How Jessica Logan’s call for help became evidence against her

    By Brett Murphy (ProPublica) | November 29, 2022

    Police in Decatur, Illinois, used a dubious technique known as 911 call analysis to make the case that Jessica Logan killed her infant son. An Illinois appellate court recently upheld her conviction.

    Español

    La historia y el daño detrás de la ley de criminalización del VIH de Illinois

    By Adam M. Rhodes (The Chicago Reader) | June 16, 2021

    The Chicago Reader e Injustice Watch estudiaron los orígenes de la ley en Illinois, cómo los fiscales la han aprovechado en el Condado de Cook y sus impactos en quienes han sido acusados.

    Judicial Elections
    McGrath-O'Leary

    Sham candidates for judge: an election secret you’re not supposed to know about

    By John Seasly | February 14, 2020

    Two candidates in Cook County’s March judicial primary have all the markings of a practice intended to siphon votes for the Democratic Party’s pick.

    Longreads

    Little hope of release for more than 160 Illinois juvenile offenders

    By Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang | May 6, 2018

    Across the country, juvenile offenders are being released from prison based on recognition they are not as mature as adults. In Illinois, many who commit crimes as teenagers are still likely destined to die in custody.

    Andrés Arias and family
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    Colombian former official Andrés Arias seeks asylum, faces extradition

    By Jeanne Kuang | April 4, 2018

    A Colombian former official says the U.S. promised help getting political asylum. Instead, he faces extradition without an asylum hearing.

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