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NPR: Often, You Can Film Cops; Just Don't Record Them

by Cheryl Corley
September 1, 2010

If the government can record citizens, why can't citizens record the government? That's the question posed by a Chicago artist who faces prison for recording the sound of his own arrest.

Drew is a free-speech advocate; his State Street appearance was part of an ongoing protest against a Chicago law restricting where artists can sell their wares. A Chicago police officer noticed Drew in the off-limits area, and told him to move along.

COINTELPRO dirty deeds protected by court order in Omaha Two case

From examiner.com.
For the original version of the article, click here.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kopf denied Edward Poindexter a
hearing on a new trial request exactly 40 years after the funeral of
the Omaha, Nebraska police officer he is accused of killing.

One-in-Five U.S. Prisoners Who Face Assault Are Raped on First Day of Incarceration

From Alternet.com

One in five prisoners who are victims of assault are raped on their first day in prison. Let me repeat that. One in five are raped on their very first day of incarceration. And that doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story of prison rape. For example, contrary to popular myth, more prisoners reported sexual assaults involving prison staff (2.8 percent) than other inmates (2.1 percent). And women are more likely to be victimized than men.

AP: Vicious, feared attack leaves Pa. inmate comatose

By Writer Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press
Sun Aug 29, 1:21 pm ET

SCRANTON, Pa. – If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental abuse in prison. Guards roughed him up, made him stand naked in a cold cell for hours at a time, and taunted him relentlessly. A fellow inmate raped him night after night, beat him when he resisted, and stole his possessions.

And no one, he claimed, did a thing about it.

Guardian: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement

Robert King
The Guardian, Saturday 28 August 2010

'I talk about my years in solitary as if it was the past, but the truth is it never leaves you. In some ways I am still there'

I first entered Louisiana State Penitentiary in the early 60s, at the age of 18. I was in and out of that place for the rest of the decade. Back then, if you were young, black and had a record, police in New Orleans would come looking for you when they had a backlog of unsolved cases: it was called cleaning the books.

Nola.com: New Orleans cops say they got orders authorizing them to shoot looters

Published: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 1:00 AM
Updated: Friday, August 27, 2010, 2:37 PM

In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters, according to present and former members of the New Orleans Police Department.

Chicago Tribune: Blog lands cop in hot water

By William Lee, Tribune reporter
7:26 p.m. CDT, August 25, 2010

Chicago police Lt. John Andrews knew that he was nudging a hornet's nest when he posted an essay on his personal blog criticizing the Police Department as beleaguered by a manpower shortage, low morale and public perceptions of rising crime.

Last week, he finally got stung.

Woman claims IMPD officer's beating caused miscarriage

Jennie Runevitch/Eyewitness News

Indianapolis - The Indianapolis Metro Police chief plans to investigate allegations of police brutality involving one of his officers.

An Indianapolis woman is suing the city in federal court. LaDonna Dixon claims the officer beat her so severely during an arrest that she had a miscarriage.

"[He was] punching me, kicking me, after he maced me," Dixon said.

"This person was angry, was enraged and just beat her," said Dixon's attorney, Everett Powell. "I would say it's a crime."

Wired: Pain Ray, Rejected by the Military, Ready to Blast L.A. Prisoners

Pain Ray, Rejected by the Military, Ready to Blast L.A. Prisoners
By Noah Shachtman Email Author
August 24, 2010 3:02 pm

Inmates of the Pitchess Detention Center, watch your step. If you get out of line, you may get blasted with an invisible heat ray.

NBC: New "Laser" Weapon Debuts in LA County Jail

"Assault Intervention Device" comes to Pitchess Detention Center
By JOHN ADAMS
Updated 7:17 AM PDT, Mon, Aug 23, 2010

Guards at the Los Angeles County jail complex in Castaic will start using a newfangled weapon that produces a deep burning sensation -- which is not to be confused with a “warm fuzzy feeling” -- in whomever it is aimed at.

The 7 1/2-foot-tall “Assault Intervention Device,” which sheriff's deputies demonstrated Friday at the Pitchess Detention Center, emits an invisible beam that causes an unbearable sensation, reported the Daily News.

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