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Surprising Development, Regarding White Man Pardoned For Fatal Shooting at BLM Event
The Root· 1 hour agoA few weeks ago, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted a pardon to Daniel Perry, a white man convicted in...
Felons often can’t vote in Florida. But Trump likely can, thanks to a quirk of the law.
Washington Post· 6 days agoThousands of Florida residents lose their right to vote every year when they are convicted of a...
On this day in history, June 5, 1968, presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy is fatally shot in Los...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPresidential hopeful and former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on this day in...
Red States Are Reversing Criminal Justice Reform
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThe Kansas Legislature recently passed a bill reforming the state's civil asset forfeiture laws with unanimous support in both the House and Senate....
Texas Republicans, Democrats and immigrant advocacy groups blast Biden’s asylum executive order |...
Houston Public Media· 1 day agoThe Texas Civil Rights Project and others are condemning President Biden's Tuesday executive action...
Michigan Senate passes updates to ‘medically frail’ parole bill
Michigan Advance via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPeople in prison who may legally qualify as “medically frail” are one step closer to being released...
This Catholic leader shelters migrants. Texas says he runs ‘stash houses.’
Washington Post· 13 hours agoFor three months he’d languished in a hospital bed in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a...
New York AG calls for investigation into pardoned Texas killer
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoThe letter penned by New York Attorney General Letitia James and signed by 13 other Democratic...
How a Texas law may be helping plummet cases of people tampering with ankle monitors
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOf the 75,000 people on parole supervision in Texas, there are about 2,800 on traditional electronic...
Travis County DA wants to overturn Abbott’s pardon of convicted murderer
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