District attorneys in all five New York City boroughs are reportedly building out secret databases of cops with “credibility” issues, which if released could potentially have weighty implications for past convictions in the New York City area. According to a Gothamist/WNYC report, district attorney’s offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, …
Read More »Alabama Prisons Accused of Turning a Blind Eye to Stabbings, Gang Rapes
A Department of Justice report released today contains harrowing details about human rights violations in Alabama state prisons, including multiple stabbings, knifepoint gang rapes, and a prisoner setting fire to someone else’s blanket while they were sleeping. In a letter to Alabama governor Kay Ivey, the DOJ writes that “there …
Read More »College Student Samantha Josephson Killed After Mistaking Car for Uber
Last Friday morning, Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old college student at the University of South Carolina, ordered an Uber at 2:00 a.m. after spending the night out with her friends. She was last seen on surveillance footage getting into a black Chevy Impala in downtown Columbia, thinking it was her Uber. …
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