A new immigration bill in Idaho, House Bill 83, is set to move to the House floor after approval from the State Affairs Committee. This bill, devised to regulate unauthorized immigration, classifies a first offense as a misdemeanor and a second offense as a felony. Proponents claim law enforcement would only be allowed to enforce…
The ACLU of Idaho is urging the Idaho Supreme Court to step in and address what it calls a public defense crisis, alleging that the State’s recent overhaul of its public defense system is leaving indigent defendants without proper legal representation. After Idaho transitioned to a statewide public defender agency in October, mass resignations due…
I need to be able to protect my patients’ lives, their health and future fertility without fear of becoming a felon, writes guest columnist Kylie Cooper. Read more here.
[A]n estimated 5,127 women in Idaho won’t have the option to seek abortion care out of state because of parole or probation, according to a report by the Prison Policy Initiative…
Julius Jones was sentenced to death after the July 28, 1999, murder of Paul Howell. He is scheduled to die November 18 for a murder that he, for decades, maintained he did not commit. A Pardon and Parole Board has recommended twice that Jones’ death sentence be commuted to life with possibility of parole. However,…
For police and prosecutors, often perceived as the engines of public safety, human caging is the primary tool in their tool kit. People who have served time in prison are less likely to succeed than people who have never been in the system; that is because confinement is seemingly designed to destroy mental health. In…
A long history of using racial, ethnic, and national origin as a proxy for national security threats, leads the FBI to charge scientist, Anming Hu, from the University of Tennessee, with 6 counts of wire fraud and making false statements in connection with a NASA grant. Juror 33, Wendy Chandler, expressed her discontent with how…
Society fears the risks facial recognition is posing around New York. NYPD is using more 15,000 public and private cameras around the city to track people in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Technology has been known to be biased against women and people of color. This type of bias threatens the right to peaceful protest,…