Deadly Force” Revisited: Transparency and Accountability for D.C. Police Use of Force by Karen Hopkins Could or Must? Apprendi’s Application to Indeterminate Sentencing Systems After Alleyne by David Loudon Book Review: Guantanamo Diary by Leila Sayed-Taha & Azadeh Shahshahani Download PDF Image
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A Community Solution to Cash Bail
Jonah Newman, The Chicago Reporter Truthout Wed, 01/20/2016 View the original piece When Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald in November, his bail was set at $1.5 million. Later that day, Van Dyke’s family posted the $150,000 necessary for him to wait out his […]
NLG Ohio and Partners Get Cases against Protesters Dropped
By NLG Ohio Chapter On May 23rd, 71 protesters, plus two Legal Observers, were arrested during demonstrations following the acquittal of Michael Brelo, a Cleveland police officer charged in connection with the deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams in November 2012. Protesters were pushed into and trapped in a small alley, given no opportunity to leave, and then arrested for failure […]
Challenge to Military Spying on Antiwar Activists Gains Support of Grassroots and Legal Groups
Legal brief supports plaintiffs’ Ninth Circuit appeal, urges jury trial to hold the Army accountable Contacts: Lead Plaintiffs’ Attorney Larry Hildes 360-599-4339 / LHildes@earthlink.net or Amicus co-author Heidi Boghosian 917-239-4999 / heidiboghosian@gmail.com SEATTLE—Several grassroots and legal organizations filed an “amicus” brief Wednesday in support of a widely watched lawsuit challenging the military’s domestic spying against […]
New Resource: NLG Scholars
The NLG National Office is excited to announce a new resource now available on our website called NLG Scholars — a list of our members who are law school professors, past NLG presidents, and practitioners with decades of experience. Please take a look and keep this list in mind when you need speakers for events […]
The Concrete Empire
By Carl H. Harrison | Susanville, CA In the 1980s, California began a prison- and jail-building boom. Concrete jails and prisons popped up all over the state, while laws were quickly changed to make it easier to lock people up. These facilities quickly filled up and people had to join gangs within the facilities in order […]
Challenging Imperialism
By Mwalimus S. Shakur, Corcoran, CA Within the confines of these concrete tombs, we prison activists have responded to fascist oppression by becoming jailhouse lawyers. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has buried us alive in the “SHU” (Security Housing Unit), where maintaining one’s sanity is the ultimate challenge. Locked in a tiny cell for […]
Mass Incarceration: Transforming an Unconstitutional System
By Bro. Brad Broussard, Beeville, TX Under the Thirteenth Amendment, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction” (emphasis added). The word ‘except’ here indicates that slavery and involuntary servitude were […]
NLG-SF Bay Area’s Police & Prisons Committee Launches Prisoner Advocacy Network
By Caitlin Henry, NLG San Francisco Bay Area Chapter We are excited to launch the Prisoner Advocacy Network and share “Support From Outside The Walls” training materials! Prisoner Advocacy Network (PAN) On November 21, the NLG-SF Bay Area Chapter’s Police & Prisons Committee launched it’s Prisoner Advocacy Network (PAN). We will train California based volunteers […]
NLG Adopts Resolution Supporting Prison Abolition
“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.” –Angela Y. Davis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK—Following the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Law for the People Convention in October, NLG membership adopted a resolution calling for the dismantling and abolition of all prisons and of all aspects of systems and institutions that support, condone, create, […]
