People's Commission for Integrity in Criminal Justice
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Representing wrongfully convicted individuals across CA. Dedicated to access to justice and the advancement of human rights in CA and beyond.
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Letter in Support of Derek Martinez's Clemency and Formation of a California Commission
Help us petition for Derek Martinez’s clemency. Mr. Martinez has been incarcerated for a crime he did not commit for over 20 years. Despite having presented decisive evidence proving his innocence, h...
actionnetwork.org
URGENT PLEASE SIGN! We are trying to get to 500 signatures. #wrongfulconviction #criminaljustice
URGENT PLEASE SIGN! We are trying to get to 500 signatures. #wrongfulconviction #criminaljustice
Letter in Support of Derek Martinez's Clemency and Formation of a California Commission
Help us petition for Derek Martinez’s clemency. Mr. Martinez has been incarcerated for a crime he did not commit for over 20 years. Despite having presented decisive evidence proving his innocence, h...
actionnetwork.org
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
URGENT PLEASE SIGN! We are trying to get to 500 signatures. #wrongfulconviction #criminaljustice
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I wrote about this, with an appropriate shoutout. www.pbump.net/o/americans-...
Americans are impressively bad at understanding crime trends
(National Archives) Please get ready to witness a truly ridiculous measure of public opinion. I don't want to oversell it, but I do want you to know that, when I saw it, I exclaimed out loud, and so I...
www.pbump.net
July 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I wrote about this, with an appropriate shoutout. www.pbump.net/o/americans-...
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Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law.
Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
www.propublica.org
July 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law.
Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
Community safety is reliant on access to healthcare, which is now decisively under threat for millions. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act , projected to push nearly 17 million Americans out of healthcare coverage in the next 10 years, likely see an increase in crime rates, arrests, and incarceration.
July 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Community safety is reliant on access to healthcare, which is now decisively under threat for millions. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act , projected to push nearly 17 million Americans out of healthcare coverage in the next 10 years, likely see an increase in crime rates, arrests, and incarceration.
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The more you know about the history of the NYPD, the more things like this blur the past and the present. Is it 1895 or is it 2025? The more you read about it, the more you realize the history of policing is more a history of continuity and less a history of change.
WHOA. One of Eric Adams' former police commissioners just filed a lawsuit accusing him of running the NYPD like a "racketeering enterprise."
July 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The more you know about the history of the NYPD, the more things like this blur the past and the present. Is it 1895 or is it 2025? The more you read about it, the more you realize the history of policing is more a history of continuity and less a history of change.
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Parole boards rarely release people. This is a betrayal of their purpose, writes Bobbi Cobaugh @empowermentave.bsky.social who's been denied parole 3 times—but a proposed NY law could offer hope for those caught in this Sisyphean torment. inquest.org/no-exit/
No Exit - Bobbi Cobaugh - Inquest
When parole boards are allowed to give the original crime more weight than proof of change, they become an absurdist theater of foregone conclusions.
inquest.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Parole boards rarely release people. This is a betrayal of their purpose, writes Bobbi Cobaugh @empowermentave.bsky.social who's been denied parole 3 times—but a proposed NY law could offer hope for those caught in this Sisyphean torment. inquest.org/no-exit/
The LAPD and Sheriff’s Departments in San Diego and Orange Counties have been found to have violated state law over 100 times this past month sending license plate data toICE/Customs and Border Protection.
California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol
LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agencies
calmatters.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The LAPD and Sheriff’s Departments in San Diego and Orange Counties have been found to have violated state law over 100 times this past month sending license plate data toICE/Customs and Border Protection.
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“You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens,” Lander said. “I’m not obstructing, I am standing right here in the hallway. … You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant.”
Lander’s arrest, which amNewYork observed, occurred as the comptroller and his staff walked arm-in-arm with an immigrant whom federal agents — representing ICE, the FBI and the Treasury Department, each of whom wearing masks to conceal their faces — moved to seize after a court hearing.
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens,” Lander said. “I’m not obstructing, I am standing right here in the hallway. … You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant.”
May 28, 2025 report from LAPD shows that the department rejected every single one of the 1,700+ complaints of “biased policing” in 2024. In fact, all reports published in the last five years show every single claim of “biased policing” on record has been rejected.
LAPD Rejects Over 1,700 'Biased Policing' Complaints ~ L.A. TACO
Community members and LAPD staff made over 15,000 allegations against department staff. But only 4.7 percent (or 701 allegations) were sustained.
lataco.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
May 28, 2025 report from LAPD shows that the department rejected every single one of the 1,700+ complaints of “biased policing” in 2024. In fact, all reports published in the last five years show every single claim of “biased policing” on record has been rejected.
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for a county that purports to be interested in oversight LA sure has a funny way of showing it www.latimes.com/california/s...
Chair of L.A. County Sheriff's Department civilian oversight panel says he is being forced out
The chair of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Civilian Oversight Commission — the top watchdog for the law enforcement agency — said he is being "involuntarily" terminated in a letter Wedne...
www.latimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
for a county that purports to be interested in oversight LA sure has a funny way of showing it www.latimes.com/california/s...
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"But there is in fact a very easy way to connect Trump’s Beautiful Disaster with his authoritarian orders in Los Angeles: the bill would enable more ICE raids, more provocations, and the opportunity to seize more power."
prospect.org/politics/tru...
prospect.org/politics/tru...
The Big Beautiful Bill Will Bring ICE Raids to Your City
Senate Democrats don’t have to separate the crackdown in Los Angeles and the Republican bill in Washington. The latter will allow for more of the former.
prospect.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"But there is in fact a very easy way to connect Trump’s Beautiful Disaster with his authoritarian orders in Los Angeles: the bill would enable more ICE raids, more provocations, and the opportunity to seize more power."
prospect.org/politics/tru...
prospect.org/politics/tru...
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Scripts and language to demand your members of Congress not pretend this is business as usual tomorrow morning while LaMonica McIver is being threatened with imprisonment.
May 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Scripts and language to demand your members of Congress not pretend this is business as usual tomorrow morning while LaMonica McIver is being threatened with imprisonment.
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A *quarter* of Hawaii’s prison population is actually incarcerated in Arizona, thousands of miles from home.
Trump’s current prison partnership with El Salvador did not come out of thin air and should be understood as an escalation of practices that already go on every day in this country.
Trump’s current prison partnership with El Salvador did not come out of thin air and should be understood as an escalation of practices that already go on every day in this country.
At This Private Prison, Hawaiians Are Treated Worse Than Mainlanders.
At This Private Prison, Hawaiians Are Treated Worse Than Mainlanders
Saguaro Correctional Center, a private prison in Arizona, holds people from Idaho and Hawaii. How you’re treated depends on where you’re from.
prisonjournalismproject.org
April 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A *quarter* of Hawaii’s prison population is actually incarcerated in Arizona, thousands of miles from home.
Trump’s current prison partnership with El Salvador did not come out of thin air and should be understood as an escalation of practices that already go on every day in this country.
Trump’s current prison partnership with El Salvador did not come out of thin air and should be understood as an escalation of practices that already go on every day in this country.
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Contrary to the popular narrative, most victims of violence want violence prevention and community investment, not incarceration.
Slashing funding that is aimed at doing just that is a major step backward and will leave us all less safe.
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
Slashing funding that is aimed at doing just that is a major step backward and will leave us all less safe.
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
April 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Contrary to the popular narrative, most victims of violence want violence prevention and community investment, not incarceration.
Slashing funding that is aimed at doing just that is a major step backward and will leave us all less safe.
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
Slashing funding that is aimed at doing just that is a major step backward and will leave us all less safe.
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...
Recent data and analysis following the conclusion of the 2021-2024 trial resentencing program in California attained limited results, vastly differing by county, and excluding the regions with the highest rates of imprisonment per capita.
California Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing Project Yields Modest Progress; Efforts Needed to Increase Number of Cases Reviewed
A three-year effort to encourage California prosecutors to reconsider the sentences given to some people in state prison has resulted in a modest number of people being resentenced, but improvements a...
www.rand.org
March 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Recent data and analysis following the conclusion of the 2021-2024 trial resentencing program in California attained limited results, vastly differing by county, and excluding the regions with the highest rates of imprisonment per capita.
On this Day (March 18/19)1963: The Brady v Maryland case was argued in Court. The suppression of key evidence in this case led the Supreme Court to make a landmark decision:
🔶 Withholding evidence that could prove a defendant’s innocence is a violation of their due process rights.
🔶 Withholding evidence that could prove a defendant’s innocence is a violation of their due process rights.
March 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
On this Day (March 18/19)1963: The Brady v Maryland case was argued in Court. The suppression of key evidence in this case led the Supreme Court to make a landmark decision:
🔶 Withholding evidence that could prove a defendant’s innocence is a violation of their due process rights.
🔶 Withholding evidence that could prove a defendant’s innocence is a violation of their due process rights.
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The city’s payroll data show, out of its top 100 earners, 91 worked for the Boston police and each made more than $380,000 when combining their base pay, overtime, retroactive pay and other compensation.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
7 Boston cops earned more than $500,000 last year
The city’s payroll data show, out of its top 100 earners, 91 worked for the Boston police and each made more than $380,000 when combining their base pay, overtime, retroactive pay and other compensati...
www.wbur.org
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The city’s payroll data show, out of its top 100 earners, 91 worked for the Boston police and each made more than $380,000 when combining their base pay, overtime, retroactive pay and other compensation.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
Last week, we brought Joseph Nuccio's wrongful conviction to the Court of Appeals. In 2023, his petition was denied by a visiting judge after every single working judge in San Joaquin county recused themselves from overseeing it thepeoplescommissionforintegrityincriminaljustice.org/joseph-nuccio
March 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Last week, we brought Joseph Nuccio's wrongful conviction to the Court of Appeals. In 2023, his petition was denied by a visiting judge after every single working judge in San Joaquin county recused themselves from overseeing it thepeoplescommissionforintegrityincriminaljustice.org/joseph-nuccio
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Jane Roberts, Who Is Married to the Supreme Court Chief Justice, Made $10.3 Million in Commissions
www.businessinsider.com/jane-roberts...
www.businessinsider.com/jane-roberts...
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
10 years ago now, the Orange County Public Defender’s office discovered that local law enforcement had been illegally using jailhouse informants to procure confessions from defendants. Has anything changed?
The 'OC Snitch Scandal'
It's been settled. So why is it still an issue?
laist.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
10 years ago now, the Orange County Public Defender’s office discovered that local law enforcement had been illegally using jailhouse informants to procure confessions from defendants. Has anything changed?
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"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."
By My Prison’s Standards, the Bible Would Be a Banned Book
Today, more than 50,000 books are banned in prison. At Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, the book ban is getting to be ridiculous.
prisonjournalismproject.org
February 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."