justice system

My father grew up in a country where African Americans were, by law, forced into separate and unequal lives. They were lynched, cheated, driven from homes, kept from jobs, denied their rights, and abused by te justice system. They lived as refugees in their own nation.

Tennessee doesn’t require sex offenders to register with the state’s sex crime registry if their conviction came while they were minors. On its face it makes sense. The justice system has a bias toward protecting children’s identities.

Hence, the value of corporate ethics in American society: not only is defunct Countrywide a predatory lender who lured consumers with "teaser rates," but their workforce included a white collar criminal who sold millions of customers' mortgage profiles, including social security numbers on the black market.

Last Thursday, the Promptness subcommittee of the Tennessee Study Committee on the Administration of the Death Penalty met for several hours with some compelling testimony and discussion.

Apparently this is a common practice for Canadians who cause "troubles" in town and it looks like this isn't the first time Mr. Inglis has experienced forced ostracism: "Inglis has received a similar ban in Prince

Must be a kooky, DFH:

What about those "detainees," accused by United States officials of being terrorists, populating Guantanamo Bay? Should they just stay there forever, with no way to defend themselves even if they've been falsely accused? Or should the U.S. justice system apply to them, also?...

Obama’s Sept.

Some very damning judicial rulings in the case of death-row inmate Paul Gregory House indicate House should already have been released, but he remains in in jail. The questions raised by the rulings about how the state is operating it's judicial system reveal that abuses are a constant.