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A Lexington, Miss., police cruiser is parked outside their facility near the town square, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The Lexington police department unconstitutionally jailed people for unpaid fines without first assessing whether they could afford to pay them, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Mississippi police unconstitutionally jailed people for unpaid fines, Justice Department says
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Thu,02/29/24-5:03PM , 200 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police department in one of the nation's poorest counties unconstitutionally jailed people for unpaid fines without first assessing whether they could afford to pay them, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.
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This undated family photo shows Samaher Esmail, a Palestinian-American from Louisiana who is being tried in Israeli military court for incitement, pictured on a family trip to Turkey. Esmail who was beaten, dragged out of her home and detained by Israeli authorities for over three weeks was released on bail Thursday Feb. 29, 2024 to wait out the remainder of her trial in the West Bank, the latest case to draw international attention to the prosecution of an American in Israeli military court. (Family handout via AP)

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Palestinian-American woman who faces trial in Israeli military court is released on bail
By JULIA FRANKEL - Associated Press
Thu,02/29/24-3:20PM , 129 Reads
OFER PRISON, West Bank (AP) — A U.S.
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The execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution is shown as Security Institution Warden Randy Blades look on in Boise, Idaho on Oct. 20, 2011. Idaho on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S., after a medical team repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection. (AP Photo/Jessie L. Bonner, File)

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Things to know about Idaho's botched execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech
By REBECCA BOONE AND GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press
Wed,02/28/24-11:07PM , 51 Reads
KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded at his arms and legs, hands and feet, trying to find a vein through whic
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FILE _ The logo of the Mississippi Department of Corrections is shown on the shirt of a corrections officer on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. The U.S. Justice Department released a report Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, saying Mississippi has failed to protect inmates at three prisons from violence because it does not adequately supervise incarcerated people, control contraband or investigate harm and misconduct, (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Justice Department finds problems with violence, gangs and poor conditions in 3 Mississippi prisons
Wed,02/28/24-10:56AM , 124 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gangs, violence and sexual assaults are a problem in three Mississippi prisons because the facilities are short-staffed and inmates are sometimes left unsupervised, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a report Wednesday.
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