On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency medical technician, was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers. Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Brett Hankison, and Detective Myles Cosgrove forced entry into her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky under the authority of a search warrant. Gunfire was exchanged between Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, and LMPD officers. Walker said he believed that … Continue reading The Shooting of Breonna Taylor – Wikipedia
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The Illusion Of The ‘Free Market’ – Paradox Of State Punishing People For Drug Use
Professor of Political Science and Law, Bernard Harcourt explores the exponential increase in imprisonment in the US and the irony of our touting freedom and the free market when we have a higher rate of imprisonment than any other country -- a full one percent of the adult population! Professor Harcourt, chairman of the University of … Continue reading The Illusion Of The ‘Free Market’ – Paradox Of State Punishing People For Drug Use
Prison Mistakes, Prison Reform
High profile mistakes are going on in Texas and other state prisons; from a man in a wheel chair escaping to a man making death threats from a cell phone on death row. Did you ever wonder how prisoners got drugs and cellphones in prison? Wonder no more, this report tells you very clearly how it … Continue reading Prison Mistakes, Prison Reform
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