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Cells are shown in a newly cleared wing at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Official: Long lockdowns can ratchet up tension among prisoners

When a facility goes into lockdown, it usually means the few freedoms inmates have go away.

8 years ago

Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer,  gather Thursday outside the Criminal Justice Center where a judge was considering whether Abu-Jamal’s appeals should be reinstated. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Decision on Abu-Jamal’s right to file new appeal in murder conviction must wait

Supporters hope Mumia Abu-Jamal will get a new trial in the murder of Philadelphia police Officer Daniel Faulkner due to what they say is a prosecutorial conflict of interest

8 years ago

Aerial view of Graterford State Prison in Southeastern Pennsylvania. (Chris Gardner/AP Photo)
Health

Pa. locks down all prisons after a surge in staff illnesses

Pa.'s state prisons are on lockdown after staff members required treatment in recent weeks from exposure to a yet-unidentified substance described as a liquid synthetic drug.

8 years ago

Gov. Jerry Brown holds a copy of a bill to end bail he signed Tuesday, Aug. 28, in Sacramento, Calif. The bill, co-authored by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, third from right, and Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda, right, makes California the first state to eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial. It goes into effect in October 2019. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

California becomes first state to end cash bail after 40-year fight

8 years ago

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Down the Shore
Community

N.J. town begins plainclothes police patrol to combat beach drinking

Plainclothes police officers are now patrolling beaches in one Cape May County municipality after an uptick in late summer liquor consump ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross says language in the note left taped over a work station's trash can was
Courts & Law

Philly detective under review after racially charged note emerges

Commissioner Richard Ross says the language in the note left taped over a work station's trash can was 'deeply concerning.'

8 years ago

(LA Johnson/NPR)
NPR
Education

The School Shootings That Weren’t

How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school? We should know. But we don't.

8 years ago

Officers on bikes escort a group of protestors at a Blue Lives Matter march as it goes over Arch Street, towards Logan Square, on Saturday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

Low turnout for Blue Lives Matter march, while arrests made at counter protest

More officers than demonstrators were at the Blue Lives Matter rally that took place at the Liberty Bell.

8 years ago

SCI Mercer (Google Maps)
Courts & Law

State prisons make changes after staff mysteriously sickened

Pennsylvania's state prison system is tightening security and revamping procedures after 18 staff members were treated at hospitals for exposure to a yet-unidentified substanc

8 years ago

The Camden County Police mobile command sets up on Broadway near Mount Vernon Street in Camden, where two detectives were shot. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

All 3 suspects wanted in ambush shooting of police arrested

The remaining two men sought in connection with the ambush shooting of two New Jersey police detectives earlier this month have been arrested.

8 years ago

The planned demonstrations are in response to a riot that resulted in seven deaths in April at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina. (Google Maps/Screenshot by NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Inmates plan to hold 2-week strike at prisons across U.S.

Inmates at prisons across the U.S. are expected to stage a two-week strike beginning Tuesday to demand better living conditions and prison reform.

8 years ago

Police stand guard at the Frank Rizzo statue on the grounds of the Municipal Services Building. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

A historian on the Rizzo debate: ‘It comes down to what statues do’

Controversy surrounding the 10-foot-tall statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo across from City Hall has rekindled in recent weeks

8 years ago

Camden Police Chief John Thomson asks for the public's help in finding the men wanted in connection with the shooting of two undercover detectives. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Police arrest 1 of 3 men charged in ambush shooting of Camden police detectives

Police said Saturday night that they arrested Juan Figueroa without incident in Gloucester City, N.J.

8 years ago

Camden Police Chief John Thomson asks for the public's help in finding three men wanted in connection with the shooting of two undercover detectives.
Courts & Law

Three men face charges in ambush shooting of Camden police detectives

Still at large, the suspects are considered to be extremely dangerous, police say

8 years ago

New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg considering proposing legislation to make police dash camera video available to the public, which would reverse this week’s state Supreme Court decision that ruled the footage could be kept secret. (AP file photo)
Courts & Law

Weinberg mulls legislation to reverse N.J. Supreme Court decision on dash cam footage

The bill would not force police departments to use dash and body cameras. It would require that any dash and body camera videos that are made be available to the public.

8 years ago

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