Police state links OTD
2013-10-07 20:10:36.780732+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
- New York Review of Books: The Shame of Our Prisons: New Evidence, which looks at Bureau of Justice Statistics publications Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011–12: National Inmate Survey, 2011–12 and Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2012: National Survey of Youth in Custody, 2012, and points out that the vast majority of those who commit prison rape are staff. (Via Reason)
- Appeals Courts Give Misbehaving Prosecutors The Privilege Of Anonymity, in which it is noted that prosecutors who are found by the courts to have committed misconduct have their names kept secret by those courts. And this doesn't count the prosecutors whose lies aren't challenged and uncovered.