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2015 Was a Record Year For Exonerations of Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1199 Views Arson, brooklyn, Cameron Todd Willingham, capital punishment, Cheese, chocolate chip cookies, committed doubters, controlled substance, criminal justice system, Death Penalty, death row, declared innocent, drug crimes, Drug war, exonerated, false conviction, false convictions, false guilty pleas, forensic arson investigation, freedom, Harassment, Harris County, Homicide, intellectually disabled, judicial misconduct, Justice System, juvenile, kelly patterson, la, Louisiana, Making a Murderer, mentally ill, mistaken for drugs, Mother Jones, MotherJones.com, National Registry of Exonerations, new orleans, New York, no victim no crime, no-crime crimes, non-violent, ny, Officer Misconduct, overrepresented on death row, Plea Bargain, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, prosecutor misconduct, radio program, Radley Balko, repost, rights, riven with errors and official misconduct, Serial, Texas, the war on some drugs, tortilla dough, University of Michigan Law School, victimless crime, washington post, wrongfull convictions

As originally reported by Mother Jones, a report from the University of Michigan Law School has declared that 2015 set

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Culture Revelation: American Cops Train with Scottish Police, Face Flawed Warrior-Cop Culture

February 13, 2016February 13, 2016 Isiah Holmes 3482 Views Accountability, alcoholism, America police, Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins, beaten, Blogger, Boston PD, Brutality, California, Chief Mike Chitwood, Chuck Wexler, Civil rights, community policing, cop block, cop culture, cop killing, copblock.org, cops, Corruption, counter terrorism, Daytona Beach, depression, deprogramming the individual from culture, drug use, Drug war, excessive force, exonerated, Florida, freedom, good shooting, guardian-centric policing, guardians of the community, gung ho parolees, Homicide, Hostage negotiation, hostage negotiator, Illegal search/entry, isiah holmes, journalism, Justice System, lapd, militarized police, Milwaukee PD, Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn, new york police, New York Times, no victim no crime, NY Times, obsolete model, police accountability, police shootings, Police State, police training humanizing, politics, proportionate outcome, quotas, raw story, rights, Scottish field trip, Scottish Police, strike the root, suffocated, superficial wounds, tasered, Transparency, unarmed cops, violent eternal cycle, Warrior Cop, writing

Often intermingled with discussions of American political and societal systems is the question of what we can learn from other

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Prisons Can’t be Exonerated of Their Role in The Police State

February 5, 2016February 4, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1497 Views a prisoners’ character, Accountability, african-american, anarchism, assault, assigned social role, barbaric, broken system, Brutality, C4SS, CA, California, center for a stateless society, Children, CIU, Civil rights, confinement, Conviction, Conviction Integrity Units, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, criminal justice system, Dishonesty, disposable, exonerated, false confession, federal convictions, fit of rage, force, freedom, future criminal activities, guilty plea, Harassment, institutions, involved with the wrong people, Justice System, kelly patterson, liberty, medecine, mentally handicapped, Minorities, modus operandi, myriad of reasons, National Registry of Exonerations, NBC, New York, Nick Ford, no crime, ny, one or a handful of incidents, Plea Bargain, police, police abuse, police accountability, police misconduct, Police State, poor exercise in judgement, Prison, prisoners, prisons are not innocent, Professor Samuel Gross, public spectacle, punishment, Race, racial element, Racism, recidivism, reform, restitution, restraint of individual's liberty, rights, state convictions, strike the root, System, Texas, the state, Torture, TX, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane, university of michigan, Witness intimidation, Witnesses, wrongful conviction, You Cannot Exonerate Prisons

This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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Woman Exonerated After 20 Years In Prison Alleges Cops Planted Evidence

September 19, 2015March 1, 2016 Asa J 1926 Views Accountability, Civil rights, civil rights lawsuit, constitutional violations, copblock, copblock.org, cops planted evidence, criminalist, David Sugiyama, deliberate indifference, Detective Mike Cook, Dishonesty, District Attorney Tim Harris, dna evidence, emotional distress, exonerated, federal lawsuit, Homicide, inadequate medical care, lost income, Michelle Dawn Murphy, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, oklahoma state bureau of investigation, pain and suffering, police accountability, Tulsa, Tusla police department

A Tulsa, Oklahoma woman exonerated by DNA evidence after spending 20 years in prison for the murder of her infant

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Wrongly convicted man wins $13.2 Million judgement against Cleveland Police Department

March 11, 2013 CopBlock 1032 Views Accountability, Civil rights, civil rights violations, Cleveland, Dishonesty, exonerated, Innocent in jail, Justice System, Ohio, ohio copblock, police accountability, taxes, wrongful arrests, Wrongfully jailed

After more than a decade in jail for a wrongful conviction and exonerated by DNA evidence, David Ayers, a Cleveland,

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