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Statewide Women’s Justice Task Force Announces the $1 Billion Proposition: A Groundbreaking Plan to Cut Women’s Prison Population by 50% and Beyond Share Article Accelerated by the unanticipated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois is on track to become the first state in the nation to achieve such a reduction CHICAGO (PRWEB) April 28, 2021 Today, the Statewide Women’s Justice Task Force, organized by the Women’s Justice Institute (WJI) with funding from major philanthropic organizations, hosted an event to release...

Is the provision of any use in the Constitution? One point which must be clarified about this provision is that it has never been of any benefit to women. While the position of women in society gradually strengthened over the decades, this provision was not part of that improvement. In fact, the few cases taken to court on the basis of this provision, confirmed a conservative interpretation which did not give rise to any rights and the only instances where the provision has had any impact have involved discrimination against men. For example, a social welfare payment for deserted wives but no...

1 Read / Add Comments A hate crime investigation is underway in one Fairfield County town after an unknown person joined a video conference meeting and allegedly made racist remarks. The incident took place on Thursday, April 22, during a meeting of the Racial Equity and Justice Task Force in Fairfield, Police Chief Robert Kalamaras said. According to Kalamaras, the task force was hosting a virtual meeting among its members when an unknown person who had joined the meeting began to share a screen using images of slaves before making racial epithets and racist...

The decision by a jury in Minneapolis to find former police officer Derek Chauvin, a white man, guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd, a Black man,

Published April 23. 2021 11:06PM  FAIRFIELD (AP) — A person interrupted a video conference meeting of a racial equity task force in Fairfield with racist slurs, including some directed at Black members of the group, police said Friday. They're trying to identify the person who joined the Thursday evening meeting of the city’s Racial Equity and Justice Task Force and shared their screen to show images of enslaved people in addition to making racist remarks. It is being investigated as a potential hate crime, Fairfield Police chief Robert Kalamaras said. He said he plans to consult with fe...