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| 16.03.2026 | Boulder’s contract with Flock deserves more scrutiny (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify that the Boulder Police Department no longer shares Flock license plate data with the Loveland Police Department.
Mass surveillance has arriv... |
| 13.01.2026 | The killing of Renee Nicole Good and the moral rot of Trump’s America (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She is the second person killed after the Trump administration unleashed m... |
| 01.01.2026 | America tried something new in 2025. It’s not going well. (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak
Is there a dumpster somewhere to torch and bury the year of bedlam, 2025?
We pass its end with equal amounts relief and trepidation. Surely we can’t be expected... |
| 22.07.2025 | Trump wants to hire 10,000 new ICE agents. Is that goal doable? | The independent watchdog concluded that to meet the goal of 10,000 new immigration officers, ICE would need more than 500,000 applicants. For CBP to hire 5,000 new agents, it would need 750,000 applicants.
It doesn’t appear either goal was ... |
| 08.05.2025 | Here’s Everything Trump Is Doing To Protect Bad Cops, Make Things Worse For Crime Victims | Trump was never about law and order. He cozied up to cops and praised police brutality, but when push came to literal shove, he sat back and watched his supporters attack law enforcement officers and commit federal crimes for the sole purpo... |
| 28.02.2025 | San Quentin Fire Department Secures Funding for Cutting-Edge UAS to Enhance Emergency Response | Photograph with Fire Chief and Inmates that work for the Fire Department
Autel Evo Lite 640T total of 2 kits provided.
Drones empower search-and-rescue teams to work smarter and faster, offering unparalleled efficiency in emergency situatio... |
| 21.02.2025 | The Profit Motive Behind Immigration Detention: A Deep Dive into Local Government Incentives | In the intricate web of U.S. immigration policy, local governments are playing a pivotal role. They are not just enforcers of federal law; they are also profit-seekers. The interplay between local jails and Immigration and Customs Enforceme... |
| 21.02.2025 | National Politics | ‘Perverse’ incentives: How local governments might cash in on Trump’s migrant detention | Cell room doors are seen at the Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia, on August 13, 2018. (SAUL LOEB // AFP via Getty Images)
Trump’s plans will require building a massive nationwide infrastructure, including centers to de... |
| 09.12.2024 | ‘Calm minds and kind hearts’: Leaders in Weld County weigh impacts of mass deportation on families, workforce | Households with undocumented immigrants and many who work with immigrants, however, fear deportations will lead to forced separations of families, negative impacts on the economy and food production and the loss of diversity. And they say p... |
| 25.09.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice | Death sentences and executions, even for actual murderers, are relics of primitive societies in which leaders and their underlings ritually killed to expiate perceived evil, propitiate the gods and calm fears of social chaos.
So what do dea... |
| 11.03.2024 | How Virginia emptied its prisons more than any state in the U.S. | Data: Bureau of Justice Statistics; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios
Virginia's prison population shrank 10.5% between 2021 and 2022, per the latest Justice Department data.
Why it matters: That's the greatest decline of any state during a period w... |
| 26.02.2024 | What data says on crime as Louisiana lawmakers look to roll back reforms | As the Louisiana Legislature is poised to backtrack a slate of criminal justice reforms, one expert says there's no data to suggest the legislation being considered will actually help deter crime.
"It feels like trying to fix the Saint... |
| 04.02.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Ron Hochbaum: Will the Supreme Court decide that criminalizing homelessness is constitutional? | By Ron Hochbaum
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Grants Pass v. Johnson. In doing so, it will consider whether the criminalization of homelessness (outlawing unavoidable activities unhoused people engage in t... |
| 29.09.2023 | Ohio Cops Respond To Online Sexual Exploitation Report By Offering To Arrest The 11-Year-Old Victim | The most cynical take on this period of historic lows in US crime rates isn’t that we’ve locked up so many people that most crime now takes place in prisons where no one cares (or tabulates) how many criminal acts are still being committed.... |
| 01.09.2023 | Emerging From Incarceration: The Future Of Reentry | Forbes Under 30. CEO at Emerge Career, a prison-to-employment platform breaking the cycle of poverty through holistic vocational training. |
| 04.08.2023 | Many policies targeting alcohol use during pregnancy don't work: study | Policies intended to discourage or criminalize drinking while pregnant have no effect on infant health, or in some cases can actually be harmful, a new JAMA Network Open study finds.
Why it matters: The study is the latest research supporti... |
| 26.07.2023 | New group campaigns for elected Cuyahoga County sheriff | Just days after Cuyahoga County swore in its ninth sheriff in 12 years, a local group formally launched a campaign to amend the county charter and return the sheriff to an elected position.
Why it matters: Cuyahoga County is the only one of... |
| 23.07.2023 | Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States | Redeem now
In a photo taken in December 2003, two US military dog handlers, Sgts. Santos Cardona and Michael Smith, corner a detainee at Abu Ghraib, the prison in Iraq used by the US-led coalition and the Iraqi government. Smith holds back ... |
| 12.07.2023 | Nearly half of Florida's population excluded from state crime data | To attract Republican primary voters across the country, Gov. Ron DeSantis is pitching himself as a "law-and-order" presidential candidate. His proof: Florida's 50-year crime low.
Yes, but: Nearly half of the state's population is... |
| 28.04.2023 | ‘We went from almost no lockdowns to daily lockdowns’: The mental health crisis inside California women’s prisons | Liz Lozano has been incarcerated since 1995. Having spent over 20 years at the Central California Women’s Facility, the largest women’s prison in the world, she’s a big believer in the importance of mental health for rehabilitation. She als... |
| 10.04.2023 | How Fair Chance Hiring Is Good For Businesses And Talent | Founder of Consciously Unbiased, an organization helping companies meet their diversity and inclusion goals. |
| 05.04.2023 | How incarceration affects your mental health: From higher risk of PTSD to loss of self-control | Incarceration comes with a host of issues, from physical violence to emotional abuse, which can significantly affect mental and psychological health. Getty Images
Rates of PTSD among incarcerated people are five times higher than the genera... |
| 21.02.2023 | New York Legislators Once Again Trying To Curb Law Enforcement Access To Military Gear | For years, law enforcement agencies converted themselves into quasi-military agencies with the assistance of the Defense Department. Whatever the military no longer needed, cops could have for cheap or free, as long as they remembered to sa... |
| 09.02.2023 | When elite cops go rogue | Redeem now
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Red Dog. CRASH. The Gun Trace Task Force. Street Crime Unit. The Special Operations Section. The "Death Squad." The Place-Based Investigations Unit.
Scorpion.
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| 09.02.2023 | The Culture and Practices of Policing That Killed Tyre Nichols (and So Many Others) | American policing is violent, humiliating, and dehumanizing. It has led to thousands of avoidable deaths. Since the 2020 murder of George Floyd, police killings have only continued, at a rate of over 1,000 people per year. Black people are ... |
| 06.02.2023 | ‘They were his best shot. And they failed to help’: Why did EMS workers neglect Tyre Nichols? | By the time medics arrived, Tyre Nichols was sitting on the ground, handcuffed and propped against a police car.
The 29-year-old’s face was bloody and he was groaning in pain. On Jan. 7, after pulling Nichols over for a traffic stop, Memphi... |
| 04.02.2023 | Out of Balance: Lack of diversity taints Louisiana criminal justice system | When Rosalind Bobb’s son Jamon “Monty” Rogers was murdered in 2006, she had to find out details from the local newspaper – not from law enforcement.
“All they said, and I read it in the paper, was that it was drug-related,” Bobb said. “But ... |
| 25.01.2023 | Harvard professor says he gets thank-you notes from prisoners, some of which are secretly using smartphones to take his free computer-science class | An inmate in Georgia told The Marshall Project he uses a contraband phone to teach other prisoners.
He said he runs a group message teaching computer science using Harvard's CS50 online course.
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| 24.01.2023 | Harvard professor says he gets thank-you notes from prisoners, some of which are secretly using smartphones to take his free computer-science class | Prisoners are using smartphones for a variety of things, The Marshall Project reported, including taking Harvard's CS50 computer-science course. Kittirat Roekburi / Getty Images
An inmate in Georgia told The Marshall Project he uses a contr... |
| 02.01.2023 | The start of 2023 means carrying a gun without a license is now legal in half of US states: 'Lipstick, an iPhone, maybe a little Smith & Wesson .38' | President Donald Trump greets newly-appointed Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey before signing the Education Federalism Executive Order in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 26, 2017. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File
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| 23.10.2022 | Trump joked that the 'only way' to find the SCOTUS leaker from Roe decision is threaten they will be the 'bride of a prisoner' | Former U.S President Donald Trump speaks at a 'Save America' rally on October 22, 2022 in Robstown, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
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| 12.07.2022 | FBI’s Crime Data Collection Still Being Stymied By Major Police Departments Not Reporting Crime Stats | The FBI has switched to a new crime reporting system to collect crime data from all over the nation. Despite being given a long runway (the 2021 switch was announced in 2015), the FBI is still seeing an incredible lack of contribution. |
| 08.07.2022 | Federal Judge Finds Arizona’s Prison Health Care Is "Plainly Grossly Inadequate" and Unconstitutional | A prison sentence should not mean people lose fundamental human rights such as access to health care or humane conditions of confinement. Yet in Arizona prisons, despite a settlement promising to improve conditions, this problem persisted f... |
| 06.06.2022 | Cops Continue To Make The Best Argument For Defunding The Police | “Defund the police!” people shouted as cops continued to kill unarmed black people in ways that went far past “subjectively defensive” into “objectively racist.” Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd for... |
| 13.05.2022 | Bloke uses bizarre 'witching' technique to help teach police to find corpses | NewsBloke uses bizarre 'witching' technique to help teach police to find corpses
Forensics expert Arpad Vass teaches cutting-edge forensic techniques at a unique institution that has been called 'the Harvard of hellish violence,' but some c... |
| 21.04.2022 | The Law & Order Reboot Could Not Come at a Worse Time for Criminal Law Reform | You might think you know a lot about the criminal justice system in America. Perhaps you have a vision of what happens at arrest, during police questioning, when bail is set, or during trial. You’ve heard the familiar Miranda warnings on TV... |
| 19.04.2022 | Instructor Who Teaches Cops To Dowse For Dead Bodies Issues Hearty Defense Of Corpse Witching | A few weeks ago, Rene Ebersole drew the curtain back on law enforcement forensic training, showing the public that their tax dollars were being blown on forensic education handed out by Dr. Arpad Vass — someone who in the year of our lord t... |
| 15.04.2022 | Michigan Lawmakers Must Protect the Rights of Children and Join the Global Consensus | As of April 15, 2022, I have spent 12,075 days behind bars for a 1989 crime I was convicted of committing at age 15. It would be the first and only arrest during my childhood. Since then, I have languished behind bars for more than two-thir... |
| 30.03.2022 | Cops Are Being ‘Trained’ To Use Literal Witchcraft To Find Dead Bodies | We [waves flattened palm parallel to the floor in circular motion meant to demonstrate the encompassing nature of the rest of this sentence] the People of this United States have seen some shit. This faaaaaaaaaaarrrr surpasses anything we’v... |
| 19.02.2022 | Lethal injection is supposed to be a ‘peaceful’ way to execute death row inmates, but experts say it violates the US Constitution | This July 25, 2014 file photo shows bottles of the sedative midazolam at a hospital pharmacy in Oklahoma City. AP Photo/File
Two condemned inmates sought death by firing squad instead of lethal injection.
The lethal injection method is supp... |
| 24.09.2021 | The Economic And Social Case For In-Prison Entrepreneurial Support | Todd Khozein is the Founder and Co-CEO of impact and innovation company SecondMuse. |
| 13.08.2021 | COVID allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars? | A pregnant woman is pictured over images of Raquel Esquivel and her family: Esquivel with her fiance (top left, bottom far right) and with her children (top right) Ricky Gonzalez; Raquel Esquivel; Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe via Getty Imag... |
| 13.08.2021 | COVID allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars? | As COVID-19 spread through federal prisons, the Justice Department began a novel experiment: 4,500 prisoners were approved for home confinement with GPS ankle monitors.
But what would happen afterwards. If they rebuilt their lives and follo... |
| 30.06.2021 | Why Defining ‘Extremism’ Matters to the U.S. Military | On April 9, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin directed “immediate actions to counter extremism in the department,” to include a review and update of the Department of Defense’s definition of extremism. U.S. military members can’t fight... |
| 27.05.2021 | Massachusetts is Testing Anti-Suicide Bracelets on Incarcerated People | Last year, an investigation by the US Department of Justice found that the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MADOC) had been violating the Eighth Amendment of cruel and unusual punishment by failing to provide adequate mental health ... |
| 15.04.2021 | Colorado tested more prisoners for COVID-19 than most states — but it’s not clear if that prevented deaths | Colorado was near the top when it came to testing its prison inmates for COVID-19, but it’s not clear that helped reduce deaths behind bars.
A study from the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice found that people incarcerate... |
| 07.04.2021 | How We Define Violent Crime in America Shapes Who Gets Punished for It—And Who Doesn't | The recent, horrific mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder came in the wake of nationwide spikes in the rates of homicides and domestic assaults, trends that had already prompted calls in many states for renewed law enforcement efforts on “... |
| 17.03.2021 | Prisons are long-term care facilities. So why don’t inmates get priority for Covid-19 vaccination? | In the four-tier priority list for Covid-19 vaccination set out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, residents of long-term care facilities are at the top along with health care personnel — but not if those long-term care faci... |
| 16.03.2021 | This startup wants to use food as medicine for older people | Hello,
Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I’m Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and today in healthcare news: The download on some mixed Alzheimer’s drug results; Meet the startup that wants insurers to pay for seniors’ groceries and meal kits; What we’re... |
| 16.03.2021 | US prison guards refusing vaccine despite COVID-19 outbreaks | A Florida correctional officer polled his colleagues earlier this year in a private Facebook group: “Will you take the COVID-19 vaccine if offered?”
The answer from more than half: “Hell no.” Only 40 of the 475 respondents said yes.
In Mass... |
| 02.03.2021 | The one big question surrounding Oscar Health ahead of its IPO | Hello,
Today in healthcare news: The one big question surrounding Oscar Health as it gears up for its IPO, BridgeBio gets its first FDA approval, and how retailers are changing their plans to take on the healthcare industry.
How companies l... |
| 25.02.2021 | Supreme Court Refuses To Create New Legal Shield For Cops Who Almost Choked College Student To Death | The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously declined to create a new form of legal immunity for law enforcement, allowing James King, who was brutally attacked by law enforcement officers in broad daylight, to continue his lawsuit agains... |
| 23.02.2021 | Capital One Financial : Empowering Entrepreneurs from Underrepresented Backgrounds | Americans that hoped to send a special gift to an incarcerated friend or relative over the holidays didn't get to choose between dropping off a home-cooked meal or mailing a hand-knitted sweater.
Many corrections agencies bar family members... |
| 28.01.2021 | 4 years after police shot Jamarion Robinson more than 50 times in an Atlanta suburb, his mother is still waiting for answers | Jamarion Robinson’s family called him ‘Daddy Daycare’ because he was the go-to babysitter. Monteria Robinson
In 2016, Jamarion Robinson was killed by police officers who were executing a warrant.
His mother, Monteria Robinson, told Insider ... |
| 27.01.2021 | What Does Biden's "Ban" On Private Prisons Really Mean? | |
| 23.01.2021 | Prisoners are 5 times more likely to get COVID-19 than the overall population. A 69-year old prisoner is trying to change that one livestream at a time. | Rufus Rochelle got a surprising call from prison.
In November, Rufus Rochelle got some good news.
His brother, 58-year-old Richard Williams, was getting out of prison. Williams had been serving two life sentences for selling drugs, but a ju... |
| 22.01.2021 | Prisoners are 5 times more likely to get COVID-19 than the overall population. A 69-year old prisoner is trying to change that one livestream at a time. | The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through US prisons, with inmates 5.5 times more likely to catch the disease than the overall population.
One prisoner under home confinement, 69-year-old Rufus Rochelle, is calling for the release of prisone... |
| 21.01.2021 | Department Of Justice Lays Plans For Federal Inmates On Home Confinement To Return To Prison | The current Director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Michael Carvajal, was named as head of the agency in February 2020 and inherited management of federal correctional institutions at one of the most challenging times in the agency... |
| 17.01.2021 | Trump’s barbarism isn’t just on display at the Capitol, he’s also on a death penalty killing spree. | Anti-death-penalty activist Glenda Breeden holds a lamp while protesting against the execution of Lisa Montgomery on January 12, 2021. Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Trump’s incitement of a deadly insurrection of the ... |
| 14.01.2021 | What prison food in the US really looks like, and why some inmates refuse to eat it | ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jake Angeli is eating organic food in a Washington, DC jail. AP Photo/Andy Duback, Win McNamee/Getty Images
A judge ordered a Washington, DC jail to feed “QAnon Shaman” Jake Angeli organic meals.
Angeli is said to have lost 2... |
| 11.01.2021 | Could Trump mass-pardon his supporters who rioted at the Capitol? Constitutional-law experts weigh in. | The aftermath of the US Capitol Building riots. Leah Millis/Reuters
President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his love of his pardon power, and the willingness to use it on himself and close allies.
The January 6th attack by a mob of ... |
| 08.01.2021 | Who Has to Clean Up White Supremacy's Mess? | On January 6, white nationalists occupied the Capitol for several hours, waving the Confederate flag as they broke windows, stole from Congresspeople’s offices, and destroyed government property. Later that evening, after D.C Mayor Muriel B... |
| 08.12.2020 | Hospitals are preparing for a vaccine rollout | Hello,
Today in healthcare news: An inside look at how hospitals are preparing to vaccinate and prioritise the first round of vaccines, meet the little-known startup that’s helping the UK with its vaccine rollout, and pregnant people will h... |
| 02.12.2020 | How can the private sector be harnessed to reform the criminal justice system? | The U.S. criminal justice system directly impacts 6.6 million people costing more than $80 billion per year. This profoundly broken system is marred by racial disparities, extractive business practices and misaligned incentives.
Around 4,00... |
| 12.11.2020 | Utah Senator Tells People To Stay Home If They Don't Want To Be Mauled By Police Dogs | When cops can’t do the brutalization themselves, they send in man’s best friend. Best friend to The Man, that is. K-9 “officers” aren’t just for illegally extending traffic stops. They’re also capable of maiming people for the offense of no... |
| 12.11.2020 | Utah Senator Tells People To Stay Home If They Don't Want To Be Mauled By Police Dogs | When cops can't do the brutalization themselves, they send in man's best friend. Best friend to The Man, that is. K-9 "officers" aren't just for illegally extending traffic stops. They're also capable of maiming people for the off... |
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| 28.10.2020 | Meet 39 journalists who made political contributions. They're among dozens who've together given at least $110,000 mostly to 2020 Democrats, including Biden, Bernie, and AOC. | Should newsrooms rethink their political-participation policies? Some say yes. Above, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden with reporters on September 18. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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| 27.10.2020 | Why isn’t routine Covid-19 testing happening in prisons and immigrant detention centers? | The path to establishing widespread Covid-19 testing in the United States has been slow and painful. There finally appear to be preliminary levels of success in some institutions with congregate housing where individuals cannot easily socia... |
| 22.10.2020 | Bill Barr's Speech To Law Enforcement Officials Is Full Of The Sort Of Lies Cops Love To Hear | Very few people in law enforcement want to be told the truth. Fortunately for them, those that speak to and for law enforcement are similarly uninterested in speaking the truth. The man at the top of the law enforcement food chain -- Attorn... |
| 22.10.2020 | Bill Barr's Speech To Law Enforcement Officials Is Full Of The Sort Of Lies Cops Love To Hear | Very few people in law enforcement want to be told the truth. Fortunately for them, those that speak to and for law enforcement are similarly uninterested in speaking the truth. The man at the top of the law enforcement food chain — Attorne... |
| 10.10.2020 | A prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and their attorneys | Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and families to use prohibitively expensive video visitation services that often don’t work.
... |
| 06.10.2020 | Watchdog group sues NYPD over sentiment data-tracking records | The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), a nonprofit hosted by the Urban Justice Center that is dedicated to advocating against state-sponsored surveillance, today filed suit with Debevoise & Plimpton against the New York P... |
| 06.10.2020 | Watchdog group sues NYPD over sentiment data-tracking records | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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| 09.09.2020 | Rural Communities Needlessly Risk Covid-19 From Prisons | Driving through scenic Western Maryland to West Virginia it is a surprise to discover the Hazelton ... [+] FCI, nicknamed "Misery Mountain." This is what the area looks like, not far from Hazelton FCI. Famartin / CC BY-SA (https:/... |
| 09.09.2020 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Don’t say it | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 20.08.2020 | As Covid-19 cases in prisons climb, data on race remain largely obscured | By mid-August, jails, prisons, and other detention centers accounted for all of the top 10 Covid-19 clusters in the country. This week, the number of Covid-19 deaths among inmates and correctional officers passed 1,000, with more than 160,0... |
| 29.07.2020 | Build products that improve the lives of inmates | Nik Milanovic Contributor
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| 30.06.2020 | Make Sure Your Antiracism Efforts Cost You Something | A month on from George Floyd's tragic murder and Amy Cooper's nauseating reveal, we're seeing recent and historical episodes of violent racism get attention; public protest and pressure wins some battles and lose others; and Black-authored ... |
| 06.06.2020 | Startups Weekly: The George Floyd protests come home to the tech industry | The tech industry has generally wished that structural discrimination would go away, while pretending that it already has. But technology can be used by anyone for anything. And so, the world has watched video after video of police brutalit... |
| 06.06.2020 | Beyond words: medical institutions must act to support Black lives | Oleoresin capsicum spray, better known as pepper spray, is a chemical weapon made from concentrated chili pepper extracts. In addition to causing intense pain and irritation of the eyes, respiratory tract, and skin, pepper spray can cause c... |
| 05.06.2020 | A message from the Equity crew | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week, however, the Equity crew (Danny, Natasha, Chris, and Alex) agreed it felt silly to drum up false en... |
| 03.06.2020 | This Week in Jobs: Meeting the moment | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 02.06.2020 | Covidisparity: How The Pandemic Is Highlighting Racial Biases In Health, Employment And Wealth | A banner on Wall Street during the Occupy Wall Street march on May 1, 2102P. Gaudiano |
| 31.05.2020 | Don’t use ‘deaths of despair’ as rationale for reopening the country too soon | Following congressional testimony last week about frontline workers’ experiences during the Covid-19 epidemic, members of the U.S. House of Representatives raised the specter of a rise in “deaths of despair” due to Covid-19 shutdowns. They ... |
| 20.05.2020 | A fight for the soul of machine learning | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 20.05.2020 | A fight for the soul of machine learning | Last Tuesday, Google shared a blog post highlighting the perspectives of three women of color employees on fairness and machine learning. I suppose the comms team saw trouble coming: The next day NBC News broke the news that diversity initi... |
| 18.05.2020 | Covid-19 roundup: Kate Bingham to lead UK taskforce; Federal judge to Shkreli: You’re not going to save the world, stay in prison | Kate Bingham Crick
A top biotech venture capitalist has been named to chair a UK government taskforce on developing and equitably distributing a vaccine.
Kate Bingham, managing partner of SV Health Ventures, will lead ... |
| 29.04.2020 | Ruha Benjamin on deep learning: Computational depth without sociological depth is ‘superficial learning’ | Princeton University associate professor of African American Studies and Just Data Lab director Dr. Ruha Benjamin said engineers creating AI models should consider more than data sets when deploying systems. She further asserted that “compu... |
| 29.04.2020 | Ruha Benjamin on deep learning: Computational depth without sociological depth is ‘superficial learning’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Princeton University associate professor of Afric... |
| 28.04.2020 | 238 inmates test positive for coronavirus at Sterling prison, the largest known outbreak in Colorado | A Colorado prison is now the site of the state’s largest confirmed COVID-19 outbreak as mass testing confirms that 238 inmates at Sterling Correctional Facility have the virus.
The number of positive cases at the facility spiked as more res... |
| 27.04.2020 | New Jersey Corrections Officials (Temporarily) Banned Released Prisoners From Talking To Journalists | Our nation’s prisons and jails are coronavirus incubators. Everyone inside is stacked on top of each other and the notion of “social distance” doesn’t have much meaning in a place where sheltering in place means breathing the air of everyon... |
| 27.04.2020 | New Jersey Corrections Officials (Temporarily) Banned Released Prisoners From Talking To Journalists | Our nation's prisons and jails are coronavirus incubators. Everyone inside is stacked on top of each other and the notion of "social distance" doesn't have much meaning in a place where sheltering in place means breathing the air ... |
| 15.01.2020 | Visa’s new monopoly | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to receive future editions.
Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of fintech startup Plaid is a very big deal. The o... |
| 20.10.2019 | Netflix Is Getting Sued For The Controversial Interrogation Scene In 'When They See Us' | Diane Samson, Tech Times 20 October 2019, 10:10 pm
(Photo : Netflix | YouTube) A scene from the mini-series "When They See Us" on Netflix. John E. Reid and Associates, Inc. claimed that the critically acclaimed drama directed by A... |
| 08.08.2019 | NYPD, Prosecutors Illegally Using Expunged Criminal Records To Perform Investigations, Ask For Longer Sentences | You'd think an entity with the name "New York Police Department" would at least have some passing respect for the law. But the more time you spend examining the NYPD, the more you find it acts in opposition of almost every law mea... |
| 08.08.2019 | NYPD, Prosecutors Illegally Using Expunged Criminal Records To Perform Investigations, Ask For Longer Sentences | You’d think an entity with the name “New York Police Department” would at least have some passing respect for the law. But the more time you spend examining the NYPD, the more you find it acts in opposition of almost every law meant to cont... |
| 25.07.2019 | The Most Prosecuted Federal Offense in America: A Primer on the Criminalization of Border Crossing | Overview
The federal statute criminalizing illegal entry into the United States, 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a), has become an unlikely focus of the Democratic presidential primary. During the first round of debates, Julián Castro called for decriminal... |
| 16.07.2019 | The Trump Administration’s Plan to Effectively End Asylum Is Almost Certainly Illegal | Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.
Tens of thousands of asylum-seekers have set up encampments in cities along the U.S.-Mexico border, where they’ve been forced to wait for weeks before they can formally enter ... |
| 30.06.2019 | Letters: Treatment of migrant children; BI in Gundbarrel; cost of renewables | Marsha Budz: Treatment of migrant children is shameful and un-American
When General Eisenhower discovered the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II, he was so furious that he rounded up the citizens of nearby towns to come in ... |
