The Department of Justice found themselves another jail to probe following the gruesome death of a Black inmate. The victim’s family says his body was found riddled with rat bites in his solitary confinement cell.
I only read the article after reading some of the comments. That’s really fucked up. Guy was in for some traffic occurrences, i wonder how you get treated, if you were to get in like for smoking weed.
It is known as the “Death Trap”, after all.
How can it get to be known by that name, without having it ring some kind of alarming signal for authorities to look into this? That must have being going on for the longest time in this particular prison.
The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.
Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met with a video imploring them to contact their representatives about age-verification laws.
If there is no kbin or lemmy community available yet, there is always the option to start it. Might be a nice opportunity to get such a place off the ground.
U.S. likely to enact a law soon that could ban TikTok nationwide, President Joe Biden vowed to sign it into law (www.nbcnews.com)
Florida Republican proposes bill to ban sale, distribution of lab-grown meat in the state (www.actionnewsjax.com)
SC Jail Probed After Man “Eaten Alive” by Rats (www.theroot.com)
The Department of Justice found themselves another jail to probe following the gruesome death of a Black inmate. The victim’s family says his body was found riddled with rat bites in his solitary confinement cell.
They Tried to Expose Louisiana Judges Who Had Systematically Ignored Prisoners' Petitions. No One Listened. (www.propublica.org)
The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.
Parents are stealing their children's identities to access debt—and destroying their kids' credit scores in the process (fortune.com)
When Axton Betz-Hamilton set up her first utility bill at college, she soon realized something was very, very wrong....
Amazon claims it isn’t a “Very Large Online Platform” to evade EU rules (arstechnica.com)
That mom-and-pop Seattle operation just can’t catch a break.
Some people have all the luck (lemmy.world)
Guide to stains (lemmy.world)
Privacy rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Can't have anything these days (lemmy.world)
rule through violence (lemmy.world)
99.9% of Americans have never tasted a Blackcurrant or Gooseberry. For nearly a century, the US government conducted a war on currants and gooseberries. The History Guy YT (www.youtube.com)
I remember my Grandmother having Gooseberry in her garden and joking that they would get her in more trouble than the still she ran on her property.
What are some interesting internet rabbit holes to dive into?
Craving a good wtf moment....
Pornhub Tells Users to Take Action Before Politicians Take Their Porn Away (www.vice.com)
Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met with a video imploring them to contact their representatives about age-verification laws.
OceanGate is still advertising expeditions to the Titanic wreckage on its website (www.insider.com)
OceanGate, a deep-sea adventure company, is listing two missions to the Titanic shipwreck in June 2024....
Catchall sub, like /r/everything on Reddit or /s/whatever on Saidit?
I'm looking for something like /r/everything or /s/whatever.
Where is the best place to ask questions to find a website, similar to reddit.com/r/findawebsite/?
See title
OC The devil went down to Georgia - and got involved in the Abkhazia conflict
Moving some of my Reddit submissions to the Fediverse
OC You find a magical artefact allows you to teleport - but only into "countries" that are not internationally recognised. You might have found the latter out too late
Moving some of my Reddit prompts to Kbin.