U.S. News/Police Violence
These Are The Companies That BlackRock 'Controls' The Most Of:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/opinion/vanguard-power-blackrock-state-street.html
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/blackrocks-top-equity-holdings-2023/
Pentagon Says “Accounting Error” Provides Extra $6.2B in Ukraine Military Aid:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/politics/pentagon-ukraine-accounting-error/index.html
Ukraine Blocks Journalists From Front Lines With Escalating Censorship:
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/22/ukraine-war-journalists-press-credentials/
No Matter How You Frame It, the ADL is a Racist Organization:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/no-matter-how-you-frame-it-the-adl-is-a-racist-organization/285078/
Former NYPD sergeant convicted of acting as Chinese agent:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-ny-police-sergeant-convicted-acting-chinese-agent-fox-hunt-trial-2023-06-20/
Report: Support for Extremism Among U.S. Military Veterans Is Similar to the Public
Question: why are police hiring veterans?
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1071-2.html
How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.
"Lauren Davila clicked on Feb. 24, 1835, another in a litany of days on which slave trading fueled her home city of Charleston, South Carolina. But on this day, buried in a sea of classified ads for sales of everything from fruit knives and candlesticks to enslaved human beings, Davila made a shocking discovery."
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-grad-student-discovered-largest-us-slave-auction
Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation:
https://theconversation.com/supreme-court-rules-the-us-is-not-required-to-ensure-access-to-water-for-the-navajo-nation-202588
Judge Orders Stretch of Enbridge Line 5 Shut Down on Tribal Land:
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057139-line-5-pipeline-ruling-tribal-land-enbridge/
Native American Families Are Being Broken Up in Spite of a Law Meant to Keep Children With Their Parents:
https://www.propublica.org/article/native-american-parental-rights-termination-icwa-scotus
Free Press Advocates Slam 'Blatantly Unconstitutional' Conviction of North Carolina Reporters Covering Homeless In Public Park:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/asheville-journalists-convicted
Study finds most of California’s homeless are locals:
https://www.courthousenews.com/study-finds-most-of-californias-homeless-are-locals/
Seniors Are a Growing Portion of Unhoused Population:
DOJ and the FBI resisted opening investigation into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year:
Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets:
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-cell-site-simulator-stingray-secrecy/
FBI Make-Work Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them
BS Warning- Expert says ending DNA testing at the border will result in 'more suffering and exploitation'
https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/expert-says-ending-dna-testing-at-the-border-will-result-in-more-suffering-and-exploitation-fake-family-units-child-trafficking-customs-and-border-protection-mexico-us-biden-administration
Immigration atty. George Anibowei who claims border patrol agents have copied privileged communications between him and his clients at least once before cannot sue:
https://webservices.courthousenews.com/sites/Data/AppellateOpinionUploads/2023-20-6--11-32-44-108e18f5-2d42-4f8a-b53c-6d215c086f05.pdf
Oversight committee asks DHS to investigate the Inspector General's deleting of all text messages:
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2023-06-12.JBR%20et%20al.%20to%20Shogan-NARA%20re%20Cuffari.pdf
https://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/resources/ud-2023-0052-dhs-open-letter.pdf
DHS Sued For Election Censorship Collusion Records:
https://www.judicialwatch.org/election-censorship-collusion/
Mayorkas puts controversial union chief Randi Weingarten on DHS academic council:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-puts-controversial-union-chief-randi-weingarten-dhs-academic-council
DHS awards nearly $200,000 to Analytical AI to track objects in sports stadiums and schools:
https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2023/06/15/st-awards-funds-startup-developing-object-detection-tracking-algorithms-securing
TSA Testing Idemia Facial Recognition at Denver International Airport:
Clearview's CRO and advisory appointments are full of former CIA and military:
The company’s advisory board has also added U.S. Air Force (Retired) Major General Aaron Prupas, Central Intelligence Agency Senior Intelligence Service Expert (Retired) John T. Lewis, and Former Syracuse University Assistant Dean Mark Jacobson. Jacobson has served in the U.S. Army and Navy, and with NATO. The advisory board has been stocked with former members of the military and public sector officials since inception.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202306/clearview-cro-and-advisory-appointments-indicate-military-and-intelligence-focus
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210518005625/en/Three-New-Faces-Join-Clearview-AI
https://rocketreach.co/clearview-ai-management_b42407bcff02d1b2
NYC stores protest proposed ban on facial recognition:
Tom Morello, Zack de la Rocha, and Boots Riley Boycotting Venues That Use Facial Recognition:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tom-morello-zack-de-la-rocha-facial-recognition-concerts-boycott-1234775909/
Old Dominion asks court to dismiss biometric privacy lawsuit:
https://landline.media/old-dominion-tells-federal-court-to-dismiss-biometric-privacy-lawsuit/
LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes:
“This is really concerning,” Emily Tucker, the executive director of Georgetown Law School’s Center on Privacy and Technology, told The Intercept. Tucker compared the LexisNexis contract to controversial and frequently biased predictive policing software, causing heightened alarm thanks to ICE’s use of license plate databases. “Imagine if whenever a cop used PredPol to generate a ‘hot list’ the software also generated a map of the most recent movements of any vehicle associated with each person on the hot list.” LexisNexis is known for its vast trove of public records and commercial data, a constantly updating archive that includes information ranging from boating licenses and DMV filings to voter registrations and cellphone subscriber rolls. In the aggregate, these data points create a vivid mosaic of a person’s entire life, interests, professional activities, criminal run-ins no matter how minor, and far more.
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/20/lexisnexis-ice-surveillance-license-plates/
Police Should Not Be Allowed to Compel Our Cell Phone Passwords:
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/police-should-not-be-allowed-to-compel-our-cell-phone-passwords
Meet "Thermonator" the flame throwing robot dog:
https://uncrate.com/thermonator-robot-dog-flamethrower/
Activists rally one year after Supreme Court allowed abortion bans:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-activists-rally-one-year-after-supreme-court-allowed-abortion-bans-2023-06-24/
Atlanta DA Opposed Indicting Cop City Legal Observer, but Georgia AG Pushed Charges Anyway:
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/21/cop-city-georgia-attorney-general-domestic-terrorism/
Prosecutor withdraws from prosecution of Atlanta cop city protester arrests:
“But Homeland Security officials said earlier this month the agency has no such classification and that the agency doesn't designate any groups as domestic violent extremists. And the FBI, which tracks domestic terrorism threats nationwide, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that it cautions against using group affiliations to condemn individual behavior. Still, Georgia's Attorney General Chris Carr and the Georgia Bureau of Investigations said they are standing by the domestic violent extremists justifications used in the arrest warrants.”
https://www.courthousenews.com/prosecutor-withdraws-from-prosecution-of-atlanta-training-center-arrests/
Atlanta’s Attack on Cop City Protesters Should Be a Warning to Us All:
"The struggle in Atlanta is a part of a bigger story. With corporations like Amazon, Wells Fargo and Delta backing the Atlanta Police Foundation’s development of this project the direct link between the police state and encroaching environmental degradation becomes obvious. The call to stop Cop City is much bigger than just one facility. It is also connected to the years-long fight against the West Side Cop Academy in Chicago and against Urban Shield in Oakland. It is also directly linked to the uprisings in Ferguson, Baltimore and the massive response to the public execution of George Floyd.”
https://truthout.org/articles/atlantas-attack-on-cop-city-protesters-should-be-a-warning-to-us-all/
Atlanta police training center opponents to begin collecting signatures for approved referendum petition:
https://www.courthousenews.com/atlanta-police-training-center-opponents-to-begin-collecting-signatures-for-approved-referendum-petition/
DC police pilot Big Brother surveillance program that sends safety messages to drivers with history of speeding, running reds:
The registered car owner – whether they live in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, or elsewhere – will receive communication by letter or text message telling them someone in their household is driving dangerously. “Your vehicle has a history of speeding and/or running red lights, and this is placing the drivers and passengers of your vehicle at a high risk of getting into a crash,” it says.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-pilot-program-will-send-safety-messages-to-drivers-with-history-of-speeding-running-red-lights/3373039
https://dcist.com/story/23/06/23/dc-text-messages-letters-dangerous-drivers/
San Diego police plan to activate spying smart street lights, license plate readers moves forward:
https://fox5sandiego.com/traffic/sdpd-plan-to-activate-smart-street-light-license-plate-readers-moves-forward/
Privacy board recommends city council reject San Diego police proposal to activate smart streetlights, license plate readers:
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/privacy-board-recommends-city-council-reject-sdpd-proposal-to-activate-smart-streetlights-license-plate-readers/
Brunswick Police say a $978K CCTV surveillance system could speed up investigations (Fusus and Flock Safety):
https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/new-camera-system-could-drastically-speed-up-police-investigations/article_3d252a6a-a7b1-5c3f-8d5a-f8098f05ac09.html
Ordinance creating the Chula Vista privacy and technology commission (drones) needs more work:
Chula Vista Police Officer, Christopher Bearss is one of the designated officers to a carry a portable drone in his patrol vehicle. At the same time the live video can be monitored at the DFR Operations Center (Drone First Responder) as well take full flight control of the drone. “I urge you to reject the current proposal and instead create an empowered, independent and well-resourced commission,” she said. “It will serve you very well in the future as new technologies come on board. A toothless board will not be seen as legitimate by the community and if it’s not seen as legitimate, what is the point” San Diego’s Privacy Advisory Board's vice chair, Pegah Parsi said.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/south-county/story/2023-06-15/chula-vista-ordinance-that-would-create-privacy-and-technology-commission-needs-more-work-advocates-say
Illinois Expands Use of Police Surveillance Drones:
"Under the new law, drones may only be used at outdoor, government-hosted events. These include events such as parades, walks, races, concerts or food festivals. These events must meet minimum size requirements depending on the size of the municipality in which they are hosted in order for police to use drones. The law explicitly bars drones from being used to monitor any political protest, march, demonstration, or other assembly protected by the First Amendment.”
https://news.wttw.com/2023/06/19/illinois-expands-use-police-surveillance-drones
Police Violence
America’s Policing System Goes Beyond A Few Bad Apples – It’s Rotten To The Core:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-policing-system-rotten-to-the-core_n_64938187e4b007604cf69973
Ex-Cop Explains How Cop Culture Makes It Impossible to Be a "Good Apple"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ex-cop-explains-how-cop-culture-makes-it-impossible-to-be-a-good-apple/ss-AA1cNmfT
Tucson police launches new unique job where civilians can help solve crimes:
Citizens were helping solve crime behind a screen, through social media, or word of mouth. Tucson Police Department says thanks to this new job, that’s all about to change. “There’s been different things in the media where community members help solve cases, so we want to get those people. We want to get that untapped potential,” said Lt. Mark Jimenez. You need an associate’s degree and two years of prior experience to apply. Individuals can also have a bachelor’s degree or four years prior experience. Pay ranges between $21.96 - $32.94 per hour. “Once this is all done, they’ll go through a 7-week academy and they’ll go through 12-weeks of field training and once they’re done, their day is going to look very similar to our other detectives,” said Jimenez.
https://www.kold.com/2023/06/24/are-you-crime-junky-tucson-police-department-launches-new-unique-job-where-civilians-can-help-solve-crime
Sacramento police illegally searched homes, cellphones, vehicles, audit finds:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article276578161.html
Firings overturned for 5 Philadelphia cops fired over bigoted social media posts:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-racist-offensive-facebook-posts-plain-view-arbitration-20230621.html
Third Circuit Says First Amendment Protects Cops Who Want To Be Racist A**holes Online:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/20/third-circuit-says-first-amendment-protects-cops-who-want-to-be-racist-assholes-online/
The Abhorrent Free Speech of Off-Duty Philly Cops:
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2023/06/22/the-abhorrent-free-speech-of-off-duty-cops/
Black Philadelphians are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-racism-policing-incarceration-report-20230619.html
https://phillyda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RACIAL-INJUSTICE-REPORT-2023.pdf
Report shows persistent racial disparities in Kentucky juvenile justice system:
https://www.wkms.org/criminal-justice/2023-06-21/report-shows-persistent-racial-disparities-in-kentucky-juvenile-justice-system
Police chief calls images of white people using picture of Black man for target practice a ‘mistake’
https://news.yahoo.com/police-chief-calls-images-white-214136694.html
Georgia police department under investigation for using photo of a Black man for target practice:
MA Supreme Court vacates convictions against Black Muslim man whose attorney made racist posts:
Massachusetts D.A. Sued for Refusing To Release Names of Problem Cops:
Boston city councilor who oversaw police cuts should resign as budget chief, Boston Police union head says
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/22/boston-city-councilor-who-oversaw-police-cuts-should-resign-as-budget-chief-bpd-union-head-says/
State and Local Governments Must Take Responsibility for Police Violence:
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/state-and-local-governments-must-take-responsibility-for-police-violence
Still no action on bill named for George Floyd after death of Tyre Nichols:
https://wreg.com/news/investigations/push-for-police-reform-still-no-action-on-bill-named-for-george-floyd-after-death-of-tyre-nichols/amp/
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1280/text
Florida judge allows undercover detective to wear a mask in court to testify, as juror objects:
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/06/22/masked-witness-an-undercover-cop-testifies-as-gang-expert-in-ynw-melly-murder-trial/
Appeals Court: Judge who personally walked two children into jail cells for refusing to go with their mother after a custody hearing can be sued
http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/23/06/213903P.pdf
DC appeals court: BLM protesters beaten by Capitol police and hit with rubber bullets cannot sue
Officers fired tear gas, rubber bullets, flash grenades, and pepper spray into the crowd, hitting and injuring many.
The Fifth Circuit comes for the First Amendment right to protest:
Under the Fifth Circuit’s latest approach, a protest organizer who commits even a minor legal violation — in this case the court faulted Mckesson for leading a protest “in front of the Baton Rouge police station” and for attempting “to block a public highway” — may potentially be held liable for the illegal actions of someone else who attended the protest.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/6/21/23766954/first-amendment-protest-supreme-court-fifth-circuit-deray-mckesson-doe
Cops and Republicans Are Criminalizing Pregnant People Without Roe:
https://theappeal.org/police-republicans-criminalize-pregnant-people-roe-abortion/
The Supreme Court’s latest opinion means innocent people must remain in prison:
https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/6/22/23769886/supreme-court-innocent-jones-hendrix-clarence-thomas-habeas
https://www.courthousenews.com/legally-innocent-prisoner-loses-supreme-court-bid-to-challenge-27-year-sentence/
Maryland Supreme Court imposes limits on ballistics evidence used to link guns to crimes:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-maryland-supreme-court-limits-firearm-testimony-20230621-v7fqgcik2vgefj3zmfvbgrap3e-story.html
NY prosecutors are demanding Gov. veto legislation allowing criminals to overturn their convictions by proving their “innocence”
"The Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act, which passed the state Senate earlier this month, would loosen state laws to make it easier to overturn convictions without DNA evidence. This would include situations where other types of forensic evidence emerge or proof that someone entered a guilty plea under certain kinds of pressure — like avoiding the chances of a lengthy prison sentence."
https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/albany-considers-challenging-wrongful-convictions-act-as-nys-assembly-dems-return-to-session/
DISGUSTED- Fewer than 1% of defendants in federal criminal cases were acquitted in 2022:
Bring Back the Jury Trial (No More Plea Deals):
https://thecrimereport.org/2023/06/15/bring-back-the-jury-trial/
Coalition of California law enforcement groups and prosecutors are holding up an abortion privacy bill:
https://gizmodo.com/california-cops-abortion-digital-privacy-bill-ab-793-1850567285
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Alito Took Undisclosed Private Jet Trip With Billionaire Hedge Fund Titan:
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
https://www.commondreams.org/news/alito-private-jet-billionaire
Supreme Court controversy over Alito, Thomas free trips began with Justice Scalia:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/coney-barrett-real-estate-deal
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/alito-barrett-supreme-court-ethics-travel/index.html
U.S. Supreme Court allows Justice Department to toss whistleblower cases:
US Supreme Court rules that federal sentencing law does not require consecutive sentences:
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-unanimously-sides-criminal-defendants-1807274
Black family sues Duluth Police Department had at least 100 interactions with cops in the past decade:
https://www.startribune.com/duluth-family-files-lawsuit-against-city-police-for-continued-racial-harassment/600282112/
Sacramento police handcuffed a 10-year-old Black girl in her pajamas:
Judge acquits off-duty Chicago cop kneeling on 14-year-old Black teen’s back:
Off-duty Chicago police officer Michael Vitellaro had gotten information his son’s bike was stolen from the local library and then seen at a nearby Starbucks, according to a criminal complaint at the time. The off-duty officer drove his son to the Starbucks where he saw his son’s bike on the sidewalk. The complaint said he “waited in his car to hopefully observe who had stolen the bicycle.” When the teen went to his son’s bike, the video showed Vitellaro grabbing the boy and pushing him to the ground, the complaint said. He detained the teen by placing his knee on his back.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/17/us/michael-vitellaro-chicago-police-officer-acquitted/index.html
Innocent man asleep in his hammock mauled by police K-9 sues Covington Police Department:
But despite providing officers with his ID, and repeatedly giving his name and social security number, Sean Davis remained in handcuffs. "Yeah, you're going to jail," one officer told Davis on BWC footage. The city and Covington police officer Michael Lusardi denied the lawsuit's claims — adding that Lusardi was "acting within the course and scope of his employment" and that Davis' "injuries and/or damages were caused solely as a result of his own acts or omissions."
Suspected shoplifter with a receipt thrown to the ground by police in a Kansas City Walmart:
"Christopher Enloe said his nephew told him a police officer had asked if he had a receipt for his purchase and after he said he did, he continued to walk away. In the video, people standing around can be heard telling officers that the man had a receipt and that he had been next to them in line paying. The officer then ran up, grabbed his nephew by the neck and threw him into a vending machine, the nephew said according to Enloe. The video shows the interaction after the nephew is already on the ground and is being held down by an officer."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-man-held-police-kansas-city-walmart-rcna88675
Florida police arrest innocent Texas tourist and jailed her for three days:
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/06/23/woman-detained-getting-off-cruise-ship-at-port-everglades-for-crime-she-didnt-commit/
Family Of Keenan Anderson Seek $100M, Lawsuit Claims Black Man Tased To Death By Police:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-keenan-anderson-died-being-074123769.html
Reinstatement Order Issued For 2 Oklahoma Cos Who Killed An Unarmed Black Man:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/reinstatement-ordered-oklahoma-officers-fatally-shot-unarmed-black-100075426
San Antonio chalk artist wrongfully arrested for 'graffiti' considering lawsuit:
Bed, Bath & Beyond called police on Black couple who had ‘too many high ticket items’ in cart:
https://news.yahoo.com/bed-bath-beyond-under-fire-125445368.html
VA cop placed hidden cameras to take explicit photos, videos of children; sentenced to 14 years:
NYPD cop charged with child porn possession, suspended without pay:
https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/nypd-cop-steven-marksberry-charged-with-child-porn-possession/
Woman claims Oakland cop used jailed son as bargaining chip:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/help-me-out-with-this-woman-claims-oakland-officer-phong-tran-used-jailed-son-as-bargaining-chip/ar-AA1cQJNm
Colorado Cop Fired For Excessive Force Identified:
Detroit cop charged for punching jail inmate, slamming head on ground:
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/06/20/hell-pay-that-price-warren-officer-charged-for-punching-jail-inmate-slamming-head-on-ground/
Corrections officer fired for punching inmate numerous times, will be arrested:
Serial rapist cop found guilty of sexual misdemeanors of 5 women city to pay $275K:
https://www.wave3.com/2023/06/14/city-pays-275k-settlement-victims-former-lmpd-officer-pablo-cano/
NJ Police Chief Indicted For Sexual Assault, Misconduct:
https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2023/06/13/manville-police-chief-indicted/70317068007/
Boston police got called to an overcrowded presentation on “rejuvenation” technology:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/17/1075097/got-rejuvenation-better-call-security/
DEA agent who kept civil forfeiture funds for himself denied qualified immunity:
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-30501-CR0.pdf
Motorist who had $34K in cash confiscated on road trip to Vegas can sue to get it back after declining to answer all questions:
http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/23/06/223007P.pdf
Seward County has become Nebraska's capital of "civil forfeiture"
‘Pattern of negligence’ — NYC officials chide NYPD for decades of destroyed evidence:
“The loss and damage of evidence not only hampers the pursuit of justice, but also raises doubts about the integrity of the criminal investigations and potential wrong convictions,” Councilmember Kamillah Hanks said. “The absence of effective evidence preservation laws in New York further compounds these challenges."
https://gothamist.com/news/pattern-of-negligence-nyc-officials-chide-nypd-for-decades-of-destroyed-evidence-in-warehouse-fire
Bosses plotted to break into NYPD sergeant’s apartment after he accused cops of getting drunk at Electric Zoo
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-electric-zoo-lawsuit-drunk-retaliation-20230619-6dlx6izy5reb7pbrctlkycyjxi-story.html
NH Cop Fabricated Records, Violated Driver Privacy:
https://patch.com/new-hampshire/merrimack/former-merrimack-cop-fabricated-records-violated-driver-privacy-ag
VA police finally begin using body cams and dash cams by end of this year:
https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-police-begin-to-use-body-cams-and-dash-cams/
Barry Jones Released From Arizona’s Death Row After 29 Years:
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/17/barry-jones-released-arizona-death-row/
Criminalized Survivors Face Judgement and Abuse From Their Own Defense Attorneys:
The real cost of prison e-messaging platforms like ViaPath’s GettingOut:
https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/prison-messaging-cost-gettingout-gtl-viapath.html
Collection At All Costs: Unlocking Cancellation For Incarcerated Borrowers
"This report examines new evidence of the challenges faced by borrowers caught at the intersection of the student debt crisis and mass incarceration. Building on previous research and in partnership with incarcerated student advocates and educators, we discovered a 100 percent default rate for student loan borrowers enrolled in Higher Education in Prison (HEP) programs operating within a number of correctional facilities on the east coast. Our investigation also found that the President’s student loan cancellation plan would be particularly beneficial to these incarcerated borrowers—94 percent of whom would see their debts totally erased under the plan."
https://protectborrowers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Incarcerated-Borrowers-Report-June-2023.pdf
Rikers Island to Renew No-Bid Contract With Commissary Vendor Keefe Group:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/6/21/23769242/rikers-commissary-no-bid-contract-keefe-group