2015/05/04 – In Baltimore in 1910, a black Yale law school graduate purchased a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. The Baltimore city government reacted by adopting a residential segregation ordinance, restricting African Americans to designated blocks. Explaining the policy, Baltimore’s mayor …..
2015/05/04 – Police brutality? The ACLU of Mississippi has an app for that. Today, the ACLU rolled out the iOS version of its Mobile Justice Mississippi app. The Android version went live last fall in Mississippi and several other states, including …..
2015/05/03 – The new U.S. attorney general said “body-worn cameras” would enhance transparency and promote police accountability. Just a week on the job, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday unveiled a $20 million pilot program to expand the use of …..
2015/05/02 – Before we get carried away with a sense of justice delivered, let us remind ourselves of some high-profile cases in which criminal prosecutions did not deliver findings of guilt. The relief in Baltimore was palpable after six police officers …..
2015/05/01 – Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Marshall Fisher, hired to clean up after corruption removed his predecessor, has his first political fight on his hands. He is removing inmates from all of the Joint State County Work Programs Aug. 1 and moving …..
