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Idaho Trial Over “Unlawful Abortion” Could Have National Repercussions
For anti-choice activists, Idaho’s Jennie Linn McCormack is the poster child for their “abortion as birth control” talking point. A single mother of three living on child support, McCormack...
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A mini-documentary on YouTube from 2007 has recently gotten a new lease on life. The filmmaker asks protesters outside of a women’s health clinic in Libertyville, Illinois whether they think abortion...
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Finally a Limit Is Reached: Ninth Circuit Rules McCormack Can’t Be Prosecuted...
In terms of restricting access to abortion rights, the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey gave states a broad license to pass nearly any conceivable kind of restriction so long as that...
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Was Idaho Searching For a Test Case to Prosecute Pregnant Women?
When Pocatello, Idaho mother Jennie Linn McCormack was charged with “unlawful abortion,” the prosecutor admitted two things–that there had likely been other women quietly procuring their own abortions,...
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Policing African-American Motherhood From Every Angle
This post is part of Still Wading: Forty years of resistance, resilience and reclamation in communities of color, a series by Strong Families commemorating the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade. A study...
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The Death Penalty, Life Imprisonment, and Other Punitive Measures: What’s the...
If you ask children what the purpose of a punishment is, most will say “to learn your lesson.” This is why life imprisonment and the death penalty don’t make much sense to them. Yet in the United...
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Report: Taxpayers Responsible for Helping Keep For-Profit Prison Operators...
A new report on for-profit private prisons shows how correctional corporations make money whether cells are empty or occupied, depending on citizens to pay “low-crime taxes” when occupancy is down in...
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Women, Incarcerated: Investigative Series Shows Systemic Abuses of Women in...
This is the first article in RH Reality Check’s Women, Incarcerated series. You can read the other pieces in the series that have been published so far here. Keeley Schenwar learned she was pregnant...
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Sentenced to Abuse: Trans People in Prison Suffer Rape, Coercion, Denial of...
Read other pieces in RH Reality Check’s Women, Incarcerated series here. In 2009, Janetta Johnson was sentenced to 71 months for possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine. When the economy...
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Advocates Push Bail Reform to Stop ‘Penalizing People for Being Poor’
In the United States, where the principle of “innocent until proven guilty” is a cultural bedrock, close to half a million people are behind bars awaiting trial, convicted of nothing. As part of a...
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Obama Calls on Congress to ‘Ban the Box’ on Criminal Records
Criminal justice advocates scored a big win Monday with President Obama’s announcement of new measures aimed at easing reintegration of returning citizens—individuals released from state and federal...
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New Report Details Staggering Rates of Women’s Incarceration in the United...
Twenty-five U.S. states have higher incarceration rates for women than any country in the world, according to a new report by the Prison Policy Initiative. Researchers compared incarceration rates for...
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New Report Highlights Growing Number of Aging People in Prison
Gloria Rubero served 26 years in New York prisons. Between being incarcerated at the age of 30 and her release at age 56, she was denied parole five times, suffered two major strokes, and earned her...
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Hearing Reignites Calls of ‘Justice for Sandra Bland’
Dozens of activists in Houston, Texas, packed a federal courthouse Thursday, where Judge David Hittner heard arguments ahead of an official trial for a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of...
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Advocates: Dems Struggling to Address Detainment and Detention of Immigrants
During President Obama’s final State of the Union address Tuesday night, he mentioned that he still hoped to pass comprehensive immigration reform before his term ended, something he “guaranteed”...
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Trans Activists and Allies Mark First International Trans Prisoner Day of Action
On Friday, January 22, trans people and their allies marked the first International Trans Prisoner Day of Action with solidarity events and letter-writing campaigns taking place all over the world,...
View ArticleLouisiana Is ‘Ground Zero’ for HIV, Incarceration Crises, Report Says
Thousands of prisoners in Louisiana’s county jails are routinely denied access to HIV testing and treatment, with five of the state’s 104 jails offering regular tests to inmates upon entry, according...
View ArticleConnecticut Jury Finds Cherelle Baldwin Not Guilty in Death of Abusive...
A Connecticut jury on Thursday found 24-year-old Cherelle Baldwin not guilty of murder in the death of her ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Brown after she had spent nearly three years behind bars. Baldwin had...
View ArticleCommon Abortion Procedure Could Soon Be Outlawed in Mississippi
Several Mississippi Democrats joined Republicans in passing a bill Tuesday that would criminalize a medical procedure often used after miscarriages and during second-trimester abortion care. HB 519,...
View ArticleMassachusetts Seeks Incarceration Alternatives for Parents
Jasmine (a pseudonym) is a 15-year-old from Boston. When she was 7 years old, her father was incarcerated. “It wasn’t for any violent crimes, but they gave him four years,” Jasmine told Rewire. It was...
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