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A recently freed man who spent more than 12 years in prison for a fatal South Side shooting in which a legally blind witness identified him as the perpetrator is suing the city of Chicago and ...
Massey’s family has hired renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who said at Massey's funeral on Friday that the footage would show a crime comparable to the lynching of Chicago teenager ...
Illinois is home to 300,000 of the 11 million total illegal immigrants in the U.S. as of 2022, according to Pew Research Data.ICE claims it has made 710 immigration arrests per day from January 23 ...
The concepts of "political prisoner" and "prisoner of conscience" were underdeveloped until the post-World War II era, which saw the creation of intergovernmental and international human rights groups like the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1946) and Amnesty International (1961). The prisoners below were arrested before or during ...
The Prisoner Human Rights Movement wanted to address inadequacies in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, including: . Systemic problems in 180- and 270-designed (level 4) [jargon] prisons and institutions, including chains of command, staff assessment and Department of Corrections culture
The United States is a party to the following international treaties that prohibits torture, such as the 1949 Geneva Conventions (signed 1949; ratified 1955), the American Convention on Human Rights (signed 1977), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (signed 1977; ratified 1992), and the United Nations Convention against ...
A Cook County judge on Wednesday cleared the way for the release of a man who has been in prison for more than four decades for the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer. In resentencing ...
Human rights groups, civil rights organizations, and social critics have criticized the United States for violating fundamental human rights through the use of disproportionately heavy penalties compared to many other countries, overly long prison sentences, over-reliance on police control, excessive control of individual behavior, and societal ...