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Indy's civil rights mantlenew

While other cities burned after MLK's assassination, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy kept Indy focused on peace. Hoosier witnesses have kept that hope burning.

NUVO | Rebecca Townsend | 04-06-2012 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil rights, peace, justice, racism, Christianity, Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnam War, Jesus Christ, assassination, equality, Robert Kennedy, Olgen Williams, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, assasination, Amos Brown, Dream Keepers, Justice Tanya Walton Pratt, Karen Freeman-Wilson, Kennedy-King Memorial Day, Marilyn Moores, Tamika Catchings, Trailblazer Awards, William Crawford, public service

Where Fear Still Reignsnew

Ripping the Klan mask off a culture of racist redneckery at South Carolina's public utility company.

Columbia Free Times | Porter Barron Jr. | 09-21-2011 | Race & Class

Tags: justice, racism, south carolina, cronyism, racial discrimination, santee cooper

Rush to Judgment: The Dubious Trend of Trying Kids As Adultsnew

Since the 1980s, thousands of kids in Mississippi have been tried as adults, and hundreds are serving time in the adult system.

Jackson Free Press | Valerie Wells and Donna Ladd | 12-03-2010 | Crime & Justice

Tags: prison, justice

Overcrowding at Illinois Prisons is Costly and Dangerousnew

In Sangamon County, at least 13 inmates were released early, many serving just a fraction of their sentences. One repeat drunk driver served only a month of his year-long sentence; another inmate serving time for possession of cocaine spent only two weeks behind bars.

Illinois Times | Patrick Yeagle | 03-04-2010 | Crime & Justice

Tags: early release, violence, prison, politics, Drugs, justice, crime, money, rehabilitation, inmate, corrections

License to Lie: Criminals Lie, but So Do Police Officersnew

Police officers don’t have to tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth — not while they’re trying to arrest you, investigate you or even while they’re interviewing you. There are times they do have to tell the truth, and there are times when lying becomes entrapment, and that’s not legal.

Eugene Weekly | Camilla Mortensen | 01-21-2010 | Crime & Justice

Tags: false, lying, testilying, justice, cops, police

Little Kid, Life Sentencenew

Pennsylvania has more juvenile lifers than any other state in the union. This year the U.S. Supreme Court will make decisions that could completely change the existence of people such as Stacey Torrance, who has been in jail since he was 14.

Philadelphia City Paper | Matt Stroud | 08-04-2009 | Crime & Justice

Tags: correctional institution, Innocence Institute, lifers, Point Park University, Pennsylvania, incarceration, justice, juvenile

WMC Already Collecting Dividends from Buying the State Courtnew

The state Supreme Court, state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and the big business lobby Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) handed Wisconsin residents a $350 million tax hike—and gave corporations a new tax break.

Shepherd Express | Lisa Kaiser | 07-18-2008 | Business & Labor

Tags: Taxes, justice, Wisconsin, Supreme Court, business & labor, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce

Duo Makes Justice for Allnew

Justice, with backgrounds in graphic design, is a middle finger to anyone who takes their dancing too seriously.

The Georgia Straight | Martin Turenne | 10-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: justice

Justice for All (except Kanye)new

It wasn't Kanye West's most (in)famous bit of public speaking. But when West interrupted last November's MTV Europe Music Awards to un-ironically proclaim that his clip for "Touch the Sky" should've won the fête's Best Video Prize, plenty within the pop community took note.

The Portland Mercury | Tristan Staddon | 10-11-2007 | Reviews

Tags: justice, Cross

Justice Keeps the Energy Pumpingnew

The duo's electro-fiddling tends toward the egalitarian, not the exclusionary, with amped-up beats and floor-filling giddiness balancing out the occasional nod to pomposity.

Westword | Michael Roberts | 08-06-2007 | Reviews

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