Monday, March 11, 2019

Criminal Justice and Racism links 031119



Lesbian waitress goes viral destroying man who said: ‘I don’t tip fags’

Media Release: A Way Out: Abolishing Death By Incarceration in Pennsylvania.  New Data: Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Lead the Nation and World in Life Without Parole Sentences.  Comprehensive Study Shows that Life Without Parole Sentences in Pennsylvania are Imposed on the Young with Alarming Racial Disparities

On October 27, 2018, Governor Wolf signed Senate Bill 915, now Act 146 of 2018, into law. Act 146 changed the Post-Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) in three important ways which serve to make it more fair.

PA SB 293; Regular Session 2017-2018 - An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in criminal homicide, further providing for the offense of murder.  Passage into law seen as needed as a primary means of ending LWOP (Life Without Parole) under the current second degree “felony” law.  Last action: Referred to JUDICIARY, Feb. 6, 2017 [Senate].

PA SB 942; Regular Session 2017-2018 - An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder, murder of an unborn child and murder of a law enforcement officer; in sentencing, further providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses; and, in probation and parole, further providing for parole power.  Would end LWOP (life without parole) in PA by establishing parole eligibility for all those serving DBI (death by incarceration) after 15 years of incarceration.  (Companion bill: HB 135.) Last action: PN 1304 Referred to JUDICIARY, Oct. 31, 2017. (Remarks see Senate Journal Page 369), April 24, 2018.

PA Senate Judiciary Committee: Lisa Baker, Chair; Wayne Langerholc, Jr., Vice Chair; Unknown (formerly Daylin Leach), Minority Chair.

PA House Judiciary Committee: Rob W. Kauffman, Chair; Tim Briggs, Democratic Chair.

Equal Justice Initiative – committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the U.S., to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American Society.

Adult Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program FY 2019 Competitive Grant Announcement

BJA Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court Planning, Training, Technical Assistance, and Resource Center Initiative FY 2019 Competitive Grant Announcement

Innovative Prosecution Solutions for Combating Violent Crime FY 2019 Competitive Grant Announcement

U.S. Department of Justice Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation

National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) FY 2019 Competitive Grant Announcement

USA Today investigation of old racist yearbook photos finds one published by its own editor

'Get the f**k out of my country!': West Va. woman attacks restaurant manager for speaking Spanish

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Hagedorn was paid $3,000 for speeches to far-right hate group

Will my children ever be free in a society founded on white supremacy?

House resolution to end Trump's national non-emergency will be introduced on Friday

Elizabeth Warren: Let's talk about the *real* national emergencies

Kamala Harris on whether Trump's a racist: 'Yes. Yes. Yes.'

Many people only experience someone of a different race or sexual orientation through TV and movies

Uber-wealthy 'Sidewalk Sally' assaults family in park over one-year old sitting on sidewalk

Equal opportunity doesn't fix anything until we address unequal obstacles

Black History Month is an opportunity to instill year-round confidence in our kids

Could your dog be stolen out of your front yard? Police investigate the disturbing trend

I refuse to honor George Washington, and other 'founders' who enslaved and sold human beings

On the relation of conservative values and white privilege

The Incredible Beauty of the Average Person

Republican cries he isn't racist. Video of him saying 'send Mr. Obama home to Kenya' says otherwise

Mark Meadows and the Victim Card: Accused of a racist act, the congressman threw a fit.

Powerful House Republican Implicated in College Sex-Abuse Scandal

NASA renames facility in honor of ‘Hidden Figure’ Katherine Johnson

Let's talk about "not racist" people and Cherokee Princesses....

Equal opportunity doesn't fix anything until we address unequal obstacles

Poster linking Ilhan Omar to 9/11 causes melee in West Virginia statehouse

Southern California community rocked by Nazi-saluting images: The Newport-Mesa Unified School District wants to know if its students were drinking and honoring the swastika.

Woman cyclist forced to stop at side of road after she catches up with the men
Bill Jenkins, minority health advocate who worked to expose Tuskegee syphilis study, dies at age 73

Knife crimes are on the rise in Britain: A record 285 people were stabbed to death in the year to end-March 2018

Black math professor at Baylor University in Waco honored

AOC asks where the resolutions are against anti-blackness, Islamophobia, homophobia...

Belgian carnival float features puppets of grinning Jews, a rat and money bags

Belgian mayor defends carnival float featuring Jews with money and a rat

The Holocaust in Belgium

Antisemitism in contemporary Belgium

I'M JEWISH, AND I FIND THE HYPOCRISY OF REPUBLICAN ISLAMOPHOBES HOUNDING ILHAN OMAR BREATHTAKING | OPINION

Ilhan Omar’s stunning lack of introspection

Mississippi Sentences Man to 8 Years in Prison for Medical Marijuana He Purchased Legally in Another State

JEFFREY EPSTEIN SEX TRAFFICKED UNDERAGE GIRLS AND TRUMP’S SECRETARY OF LABOR ILLEGALLY KEPT PLEA DEAL FROM VICTIMS, FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS

White 'patriot' in Pennsylvania puts up billboard declaring 'Whites have rights, too'

People are still being punished for “Living While Black.” Now one man is taking legal action.  A new lawsuit from a Detroit man subjected to 911 calls for “gardening while black” could offer a way forward for other victims of recent racial profiling incidents.

Here’s the real reason the entire political establishment wants to crush Ilhan Omar

Women Are Sacred: 11 Native American Quotes About Women

Offered Free Tickets for ‘Schindler’s List,’ Germany’s Far Right Sees a Provocation

White supremacist propaganda is surging, along with everything else hate-related

Kalief Browder, Held at Rikers Island for 3 Years Without Trial, Commits Suicide

Julian Castro Proposes Discussing Reparations For Slave Descendants

Correcting the record

It’s time for a Malcolm X monument, too

Gun-toting grandson of Trump business partner could go free after firing shots into a grade school while kids were outside

Researching Slavery: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom

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