During #DNC roll call, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says they will work together with Kamala Harris "to make Washington DC the 51st state"

Prosecutors sent Johnny (14), Sariah (19), and Jeremiah (20) to prison for 15, 10, and 30 years respectively for a murder committed by a Phoenix police officer. Now, they might have a chance to get out of prison.

BREAKING: Federal judge J. Campbell Barker temporarily blocks federal officials from granting legal status to undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens under a new Biden administration program, granting a request from 16 Republican-led states. Follow CBS News for more.

Editorial: Parole consideration for those sentenced to life behind bars 35 years ago? It’s the right thing to do By The Times Editorial Board latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Stunning news. A reminder that when the courts are given the opportunity to correct an error, they often don't; they double down on it instead.

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Maine lawmaker points out what should be true for every state. No person should be denied the vote because they’ve committed a crime. All citizens are members of the polity. Period. No matter who you are or what you do. Good or bad, you are one of us.

Art Spiegelman in a piece about Charles Schulz - harsh!

The criminal legal system “funnel” - note that only some crimes are reported to police and a small fraction of those result in incarceration. So what other levers should we use to address crime? sentencingproject.org/reports/incarc…

Editorial: The teen arrested in Georgia school shooting is not an adult, and shouldn't be treated like one (via L.A. Times Opinion ) latimes.com/opinion/story/…

A humane & reasoned plea to give serious consideration to Second Look legislation-/ After 17 Years in Prison, I’m a Different Person. Do Cases Like Mine Deserve a Second Look? nytimes.com/2024/09/08/opi…

Long Prison Terms Deserve a Second Look and ‘a Little Humanity,’ Judge Argues nytimes.com/2024/09/09/us/…

As the topic of crime trends, immigrants, and public safety heats up during the election cycle, we should follow the data and not feelings. My new op-ed in The Hill | thehill.com/opinion/immigr…

I’ll never forget travelling to Israel for work, on an official U.S. Government passport, with a Jewish colleague. They asked his father’s name. He passed. They asked my father’s name. I said “Mohamed.” And off I went to be humiliated for 45 mins. As a Pentagon official.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi should be alive today. Instead, she was shot in the head and killed by the IDF while protesting Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank. She was an American citizen. There must be accountability and a thorough, independent investigation.

Massacre after massacre after massacre. Every day we allow this to continue is a failure of humanity for which there is no redemption

“On both immigration and crime, Trump this year is running on an agenda significantly more aggressive than he proposed either in 2020 or 2016.”

According to unpublished new research, Pew Research Center senior demographer Jeffrey Passel calculates about 15 million Hispanics, or roughly one-fourth of the entire US Hispanic population, live in so called “mixed status” families, where at least some members are undocumented.

What if we had a War on War Crimes?

This is anti-trans trash, Andy Kaczynski, Erin Burnett, and CNN, and it’s beneath you. Yes, when the state takes custody of someone, they must provide necessary health care. If that necessary health care includes gender-affirming medical care, then it does. The end.