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The Illinois legislature of Representatives passed a bill spearheaded by the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus last Wednesday that would end cash bail.
The Pretrial Fairness Act, which gives Illinois until Jan. 1, 2023 to abolish cash bail, currently awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature. Pritzker has expressed support for the bill in the past. If passed, Illinois will be the first state in the nation to end all cash bail.
Evanston mayoral candidate Sebastian Nalls, 20, said ending cash bail is a step in the right direction.
“This is an issue that hits directly at home for a lot of us,” Nalls said. “And it’s been disproportionately affecting Black and brown members of Illinois and members of the nation as a whole.”
Mother s nightmare: Reserve sheriff s deputies shot and killed her son with no cameras to complete the record
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) A deadly nightmare for a Fresno County mother has turned into a plea for change at the sheriff s office. I can t sleep most of the time thinking about how he died, and how they assassinated him, said Rosemary Mullins.
Deputies shot and killed her unarmed son last year after he broke into a business and fell asleep.
Kenneth Mullins loved to fish and he loved life itself, according to his mother. But he hit hard times a few years ago.
An inmate walks down a hallway inside the Worcester County jail. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Tracking deaths in Massachusetts jails and prisons has long been difficult, with details of fatalities kept secret from the public, and often from family members, too.
Last year, the federal government changed the way it counts deaths in custody a move that’s received little notice in a chaotic period marked by a global pandemic and political unrest. The new method has done little to improve transparency for the public. I have just been disgusted, said U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, a Virginia Democrat who sponsored the Death in Custody Reporting Act in 2000. You can t get the administration to move to even count the deaths.
January 19, 2021
The following article originally appeared in Communications Lawyer and is published here with permission from the American Bar Association.
By Steve Zansberg
CFOIC President
An unarmed Black man is brutally murdered by police, who are utterly indifferent to his repeated pleas for restraint. First the people in that city, then across the nation (and, eventually, across the globe) take to the streets. They demand justice. They demand accountability. And they call upon the police, not only in that city but across the nation, to reform their practices, to eliminate racial profiling and overly aggressive militaristic responses, and to
become more transparent including by publicly releasing body-worn camera recordings of police-public confrontations.