by Don Owens | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced his decision to postpone contract negotiations with the police union representing the city’s officers in order to conduct a more thorough review of the proposed contract and its provisions....
by Stanley Augustin | Sep 9, 2019 | Newsclips
Leah Watson, Counsel on the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law discusses the recent 5th Circuit decision in which the court ruled that New Orleans Debtors’ prison scheme violates Constitutional rights of the City’s poorest...
by Stanley Augustin | Aug 27, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. — The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the debtors’ prison scheme run by the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court (OPCDC), where indigent people are jailed for being unable to pay court debts, gives judges an unconstitutional...