A watchdog has warned that delays holding inquiries into deaths in custody are having a “profound” impact on the families. HMICS) said only four out of 14 deaths in custody since 2... Read more
New Hampshire, which hasn’t executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, on Thursday became the latest state to abolish the death penalty when the state Senate... Read more
Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham, an uneducated heavy-metal devotee, for killing his three daughters in a case of arson. But as numerous investigations and news articles have... Read more
The family of Derek Williams, who died after begging for help and gasping for breath in the back of a Milwaukee police squad car, will receive a $2 million settlement in a long-run... Read more
"Justice delayed is justice denied," the legal maxim holds, but what about justice dragged out and administered piecemeal, bureaucratized and monetized and extended well past the p... Read more
Prison abolition sounds provocative and absolute, but what it is as a practice requires subtler understanding. For Gilmore, who has been active in the movement for more than 30 yea... Read more
Today [17 April 2019] marked the 50th anniversary of what racial justice campaigners have described as one of Yorkshire's most shameful episodes. Nigerian immigrant David Oluwale h... Read more
For Balraj Suppiah the pain of losing his brother in 2017 is made all the more difficult by the brutality of his death. S. Balamurugan, 44, was arrested on suspicion of car robbery... Read more
