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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has reported 504 new coronavirus cases for the latest 24-hour period. It is the highest daily jump in about two weeks and raising worries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President
Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. REFORM Alliance Bolsters Leadership Team With Plans to Extend Legislative Winning Streak February 9, 2021 GMT NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, REFORM Alliance announced that its Executive Board has appointed renowned criminal justice advocate Robert Rooks to serve as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and elevated founding CEO Van Jones to join the Executive Board. The changes will formally take place on March 1, 2021. “Robert is a game-changing hire for our organizat...
Published February 04. 2021 8:11PM HARTFORD (AP) — A disability rights group sued Connecticut prison officials Thursday on allegations that inmates with mental illness are being physically and psychologically abused at the maximum-security Northern Correctional Institution. The nonprofit Disability Rights Connecticut says in the federal court lawsuit that the Department of Correction's use of prolonged isolation and in-cell shackling of mentally ill prisoners is cruel and unusual punishment that violates their constitutional rights. The treatment is also illegal discrimination under the A...
California corrections officials ignored the warnings of frontline health workers and pressured them to hastily transfer 189 potentially coronavirus-infected inmates from a Chino men’s prison last May, triggering a deadly