Tag: prisons
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Jeffrey Epstein’s final days: Secret phone calls and last-minute will changes
[ad_1] Less than 48 hours before being found dead in prison, Jeffrey Epstein met with his lawyers to sign a new version of his last will and testament. The disgraced financier had been under psychological observation from a previous episode in which he was found hanging in his prison cell, but the provocative step of…
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Court-imposed fines and fees are ‘entrapping’ poor people: Justice Department
[ad_1] The Justice Department urged state and local court systems in a recent letter to re-examine their policies surrounding fines and fees, emphasizing that “unjust” sanctions cause low-income people “profound harm,” leave communities of color drowning in prolonged periods of debt, and even violate adults’ and children’s civil rights. “The unfettered imposition of fines and…