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Connecticut has long held a commitment to the ideals of justice and fairness, as its citizens have demonstrated in numerous ways throughout the past year. These include actions by our elected leaders, such as the governor’s provision in recent proposed legislation to erase criminal records for low-level cannabis possession. Even more potent was the slew of demonstrations for racial justice, which were planned in such diverse places as Bridgeport, Danbury, New Haven, Durham, Old Lyme, and beyond.
Efforts to reform our state’s criminal justice system clearly matter to us, yet these conversations often neglect a crucial piece of incarceration in Connecticut: the hundreds of prisoners currently held in federal facilities, who often do not have access to the support networks managed by our Department of Corrections. An individual returning from a state prison has access to pre-release addiction services, halfway house beds managed by t
US prisons hold more than 550,000 people with intellectual disabilities – they face exploitation, harsh treatment
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May 6, 2021
JASON: I tweeted something this week that you would think would have some folks a bit more circumspect about it. Not “some folks,” everybody a bit more circumspect about it.
Media lies about death of Cap Hill policeman, DOJ going after Rudy G. & Biden opponents while boy Hunter gets pass, $27 mil. settlement during Chauvin trial, no jury sequester as public officials intimidate & now this? Due process hanging by a thread… https://t.co/vn4ejvXx43
The whole purpose of equality under the law is due process. Everything that we believe in America is about process. If we had a benevolent dictator, if the Supreme Court were omniscient, if we had a committee of men as they do in the former Soviet Union, the commissars and everybody else who were all-knowing, all-seeing, and altruistic why, we wouldn’t need a constitution, we wouldn’t need due process, we wouldn’t need anything.
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May 6, 2021
JASON: I tweeted something this week that you would think would have some folks a bit more circumspect about it.
Not some folks, everybody a bit more circumspect about it.
The whole purpose of equality under the law is due process. Everything that we believe in America is about process. If we had a benevolent dictator, if the Supreme Court were omniscient, if we had a committee of men as they do in the former Soviet Union, the commissars and everybody else who were all-knowing, all seeing, and altruistic why, why wouldn t need a constitution, we wouldn t need due process, we wouldn t need anything.
Violence against Asian Americans and Asians has grown despite increased national attention and political action against anti-Asian hate, experts said.
There was a more than 164% increase in anti-Asian hate crime reports to police in the first quarter of 2021 in 16 major cities and jurisdictions compared with last year, according to a report from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
More than 6,600 hate incidents have been reported in the year after the pandemic began in the United States, Stop AAPI Hate announced this week. More than a third of those incidents were reported this March alone, according to the organization founded last year in response to increased targeting of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the pandemic.
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