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A little more than two years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division came to Marion County and interviewed scores of people, wanting to know about the conditions at Lowell Correctional Institution, a state prison for women. Before leaving, they visited the prison and gathered additional information. For several years before the government's investigation, inmates past and present have bitterly complained about their treatment at Lowell, which is off Gainesville Road in northwest Marion.  The complaints vary from sexual misconduct to beatings to mistreatment by guards a...

Mark Alden Branch ’86 Yale’s undergraduate admissions office personnel say they do not discriminate against white or Asian American applicants. View full image In early October, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Yale for alleged discrimination of Asian American and white applicants. Citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the assistant attorney general of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division—Eric Dreiband—claimed that Yale is “discriminating on the basis of race and national origin.” The suit alleges that Yale engages in “racial balancing” by declining white and Asian Ame...

Justice Department Defends Health Care Workers from Being Forced to Perform Abortions Details Written by IVN Burlington, Vermont - The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit in Vermont federal court against the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) for violating the federal anti-discrimination statute known as the “Church Amendments.” That statute prohibits health care entities like UVMMC from discriminating against health care workers who follow their conscience and refuse to perform or assist with abortions.  “N...

Justice Department Files Race Discrimination Lawsuit Against Housing Authority in Oklahoma Published: 20 December 2020 20 December 2020 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Housing Authority of the Town of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, along with its former employees, David Haynes and Myrna Hess, violated the Fair Housing Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they denied housing to an African-American applicant and her young child because of their race.  The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for t...

Neo-Nazi sentenced for plot against journalists, activists Johnny Roman Garza, 21, a member of the Neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was sentenced Wednesday, December 9, 2020, to 16 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a plot to threaten and intimidate journalists and advocates who worked to expose anti-Semitism. Garza previously pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to conspiring with other Atomwaffen members to commit three offenses against the United States: interference with federally-protected activities because ...