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Report: Connecticut Locks Up Three Times More Black People Than National Average

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A recent report from the Prison Policy Initiative found that Black people make up the majority of Connecticut’s prison population, Edwin J. Viera reports for the Public News Service.

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Five Connecticut Officers Charged for Paralyzing a Man in a Police Van

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The officers were charged with felony cruelty to persons and a misdemeanor charge of second-degree reckless endangerment, according to state police. Cox’s lawyers filed a $100 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the city of New Haven and the five officers involved in transporting him in September.

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Connecticut High School Student Arrested For Posting Racist Slur

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Both of those concerns seem to have coalesced in the arrest of a Connecticut high school student accused of posting racist comments about a classmate. The Connecticut arrest comes as the U.S. The case could present an important court test for this country in resisting the criminalization of speech that we have seen in Europe.

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States Increase Efforts to End ‘Internal Exile’ of Former Incarcerees: Report

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The report focused on legislative achievements in Arizona and Connecticut , two states that issued what it called the most noteworthy laws relating to criminal record expungement. In a report released Monday, CCRC said legislatures around the country were slowly reducing the barriers faced by people with criminal records.

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Utah Self-Defense Law Makes It Harder to Charge Problem Cops

The Crime Report

Individuals charged with a felony or class A misdemeanor can ask for this hearing, unless they are accused of attacking a police officer. Virginia, and Connecticut, a version of a proposal drafted by Cynthia Lee, a law professor at George Washington University, has been adopted. In Washington, D.C.,

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States Mark Domestic Violence Awareness Month With Tougher Laws

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In terms of legislation, Detroit City Council approved a new local law this week that will allow law enforcement to seize firearms from anyone convicted of a misdemeanor related to domestic violence, according to the Detroit Free Press. . The council members named the ordinance after Sgt.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Connecticut ; Requested “Tutorial” on Climate Change. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v. He had been convicted of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in October 2017. ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law.

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