记者,激进分子谴责英国决定不收取任何费用将阿桑奇锁起来的决定
“对我们来说,这不过是将他拘留的借口。在经历了十年的地狱之后,这似乎是不必要的惩罚和侮辱。”-瑞贝卡·文森特(Rebecca Vincent),《无国界记者》
“对我们来说,这不过是将他拘留的借口。在经历了十年的地狱之后,这似乎是不必要的惩罚和侮辱。”-瑞贝卡·文森特(Rebecca Vincent),《无国界记者》
During the first hearing in what's expected to be a protracted legal battle over the US's extradition request, Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange told a British judge that he wished to fight extradition, and the hearing was concluded with the next court date set for May 30. Assange, whom the US has charged with conspiring with Chelsea Manning to
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In effect, the system operates — irrespective of guilt or innocence — as a forfeiture for those who can least afford it, while sparing the well-off.
LOS ANGELES -- The current efforts against the cash-money bail system in the United States can look to the Movement for Black Lives as their spark. Over the last year, that movement has brought into the public consciousness the costs -- financial and human -- of that system, as well as the existence of more humane alternatives to
Thandisizwe Chimurenga is an award-winning, freelance journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She is a staff writer for MintPress News, Daily Kos and co-hosts a weekly, morning drive-time public affairs/news show on the Pacifica Radio network. She is the author of No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant and Reparations … Not Yet: A Case for Reparations and Why We Must Wait; she is also a contributor to several social justice anthologies.
On Thursday, New York City’s Independent Budget Office revealed how expensive, discriminatory and unjust the city’s bail system remained as of last year.
Nearly two years after the suicide of a former Rikers inmate highlighted a punitive bail system, an audit released Thursday shows that it costs New York City $116 million a year to lock up mostly young black men awaiting trial for misdemeanors. Next week would
A computer program rated defendants’ risk of committing a future crime. These are the results.
作者 ProPublica
Courtrooms across the nation are using computer programs to predict who will be a future criminal. The programs help inform decisions on everything from bail to sentencing. They are meant to make the criminal justice system fairer — and to weed out human biases. ProPublica tested one such program and found that
Money bail is a hallmark of America’s unequal and blatantly discriminatory justice system–one in which freedom and justice are only available to those with the money to buy them
Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Congressman Ted Lieu introduced the No Money Bail Act of 2016, which prohibits the payment of money as a condition of pretrial release in federal criminal cases, and bars vital federal funding from going to states that impose money bail. If enacted, the legislation
“Money bail is a problem because — as the system currently operates in New York — some people are being detained based on the size of their bank account, not the risk they pose.”
作者 S. Wooten
When I was only 18-years-old, I was attacked by Walmart security guards. My alleged “crime” was eating a muffin from a package of three $0.99 muffins that my mother was paying for in line. But my mother was white, and I am not. The Walmart security guards in Simi Valley, California assumed I was an “illegal immigrant” and violently attacked me,