A growing number of Russian artists have fled to neighboring Finland in recent weeks to avoid imprisonment for protesting the war through their art.
Author: Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY
Famed federal women’s prison under investigation as 5th worker charged with sexual abuse of inmates
The prison in California, formerly home to well-known actors and one of the nation’s few all-female federal prisons, has come under scrutiny.
This mentally ill man was pepper-sprayed, choked and hooded before dying in state prison
Neglect and mistreatment of the mentally ill are endemic to the U.S. penal system, resulting in violence against inmates, as well as death.
US officials put Americans on alert for Russian cyberattacks as Ukraine war grows
U.S. officials said the most likely short-term cyber impact would be spillover of any cyberattack by Russia against Ukraine.
Rape survivors, child victims, consensual sex partners: San Francisco police have used DNA from all of them for 7 years
The San Francisco Police Department’s use of sexual assault DNA profiles to ID survivors as suspects was “absolutely wrong,” experts told USA TODAY.
No-knock warrants: A growing legacy of controversy, revised laws, tragic deaths
Since March 2020, no-knock warrants have been banned or their use limited across the U.S., including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Minneapolis.
Biased tweets? Politically-gridlocked civil rights commission squabbles over what to share with public.
A Republican appointee on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights proposed that public information only be shared if it receives a majority vote.
60% of people awaiting trial can’t afford bail. A civil rights commission can’t agree on reform.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a cash bail report but did not make a recommendation because its members couldn’t agree.
They were trusted to train law enforcement officers, but they were members of an anti-government militia group
65 people on an Oath Keepers sign-up list described themselves as trainers, showing how extremist ideologies have proliferated in police departments.
Philadelphia police seized their property. Most were never convicted of a crime. Most never got their stuff back.
A survey confirms arguments that civil asset forfeiture mostly ensnares law-abiding, low-income people of color, not large, criminal enterprises.