This past summer, President Obama’s Department of Justice was directed to stop using private prisons. Besides having notoriously inhumane conditions, the private prison industry doesn’t really save taxpayers money—it just generates money for people who are in bed with private prisons. Trump and his racist Attorney General Jeff Sessions have already made moves to reverse course.
The American Civil Liberties Union in Wisconsin is alleging in a lawsuit that Milwaukee police are operating a stop-and-frisk program mostly targeting black and Latino residents who are often detained without cause. The lawsuit being filed in federal court Wednesday is on behalf of six black and Latino plaintiffs who say they’ve been stopped once or multiple times without a …
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 in San Francisco seeks information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement how many detained asylum seekers are denied . Photo: AP Lawsuit against ICE …
More than 1,000 people detained during the chaotic G20 summit almost six years ago won the right Wednesday to go the class-action route in lawsuits against police and others. In approving the class-action process, Ontario’s top court said various reports on the events to date had made only non-binding recommendations. “The remedies sought by the plaintiffs, which include a declaration that …