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A federal judge today declared the mental health care system in Alabama prisons to be 鈥渉orrendously inadequate鈥� 鈥� an unconstitutional failure that has resulted in a 鈥渟kyrocketing suicide rate鈥� among prisoners.
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In five Southern states, people released from jail, prison, probation or parole encounter laws that make it more difficult for them to get a job, find housing and access basic services due to their conviction 鈥� significant obstacles that must be removed to help people successfully return to their communities, the Southern Poverty Law Center聽said in a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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Mobile police likely violated people鈥檚 Constitutional rights when they conducted checkpoints that targeted crime in predominantly black neighborhoods 鈥� a practice that the department must stop, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a letter to Mobile Police Chief Lawrence Battiste.
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Louisiana may soon lose its title as the world鈥檚 leader in incarceration.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently to pursue charges for the 鈥渕ost serious possible offenses.鈥�
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Last week, police an African-American teen in a Dallas suburb, where he was leaving a party that he was concerned was becoming dangerous. Fifteen-year-old was a passenger in a car full of teens, including two of his brothers.
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The 人兽性交 and allies asked a judge today to certify a lawsuit challenging Louisiana鈥檚 broken public defender system as a class action case 鈥� citing an expert report that describes how the state鈥檚 overburdened public defense system fails to protect indigent defendants鈥� constitutional right to counsel.
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Hundreds of Louisianans gathered at the state Capitol in Baton Rouge this week as part of an effort by the 人兽性交 and grassroots groups to show support for reforms aimed at ending the state鈥檚 status as the nation鈥檚 leader in incarceration.
