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In Need Of Transition: Transgender Inmate Access To Gender Affirming Healthcare In Prison, 55 Uic L. Rev. 773 (2022), Erin Murphy Fete
In Need Of Transition: Transgender Inmate Access To Gender Affirming Healthcare In Prison, 55 Uic L. Rev. 773 (2022), Erin Murphy Fete
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Johnson V. City Of Ferguson: Unreasonable Seizures Of Bystanders Of Police Brutality, 55 Uic L. Rev. 587 (2022), Cashmere Cozart
Johnson V. City Of Ferguson: Unreasonable Seizures Of Bystanders Of Police Brutality, 55 Uic L. Rev. 587 (2022), Cashmere Cozart
UIC Law Review
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Exposure To Police Brutality Allows For Transparency And Accountability Of Law Enforcement, 33 J. Marshall J. Info. Tech. & Privacy L. 75 (2017), Kendal Harden
UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law
Thanks to the advancements in technology and valor of citizens, the public is finally able to understand the true severity of police brutality within the United States. The following considerations aim to address the lack of accountability and transparency of police brutality in the United States today. Part III will show how advancements in technology brings police brutality to the forefront of our nation’s issues by creating an informed society. Part IV will describe how individual states control the use of private cameras and cell phones of citizens to capture occurrences of police brutality. States do this by employing anti-wiretapping …
The Jim Crow Effect: Denial, Dignity, Human Rights, And Racialized Mass Incarceration, 29 J. Civ. Rts. & Econ. Dev 15 (2016), Cecil J. Hunt Ii
The Jim Crow Effect: Denial, Dignity, Human Rights, And Racialized Mass Incarceration, 29 J. Civ. Rts. & Econ. Dev 15 (2016), Cecil J. Hunt Ii
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
The overarching theme of this paper is that the racialization of mass incarceration in America, which has been taking place since the latter part of the last century, and continues to this very day, is characterized by what I term, the “Jim Crow effect".
Rfid Implementation: Testing In Prisons And Parolees For The Greater Good, 33 J. Marshall J. Info. Tech. & Privacy L. 22 (2016), Mirko Akrap
UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law
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Free, But Still Behind Bars: Reading The Illinois Post-Conviction Hearing Act To Allow Any Person Convicted Of A Crime To Raise A Claim Of Actual Innocence, 35 B.C. J. L. & Soc. Just. 1 (2015), Hugh Mundy
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
As the number of wrongfully convicted prisoners who are subsequently exonerated continues to rise, the importance of access to post-conviction relief also increases. Under the Illinois Post-Conviction Hearing Act, this access is restricted to petitioners who are currently imprisoned or otherwise facing a restraint on their liberty. Persons convicted of a crime who have completed their sentence are barred from pursuing post-conviction relief under the Act, regardless of the existence of exculpatory evidence that supports their innocence. Removing this procedural roadblock and interpreting the Act broadly to allow any person convicted of a crime to raise a claim of actual …
Law Enforcement And White Power: An F.B.I. Report Unraveled, 41 T. Marshall L. Rev. 103 (2015), Samuel Vincent Jones
Law Enforcement And White Power: An F.B.I. Report Unraveled, 41 T. Marshall L. Rev. 103 (2015), Samuel Vincent Jones
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
Because of intensifying civil strife over the recent killings of unarmed Black men, women, and boys, many Americans are wondering, “What's wrong with our police?” Remarkably, one of the most compelling but unexplored explanations may rest with an FBI warning of October, 2006, which reported that “[W]hite supremacist infiltration of law enforcement” represented a significant national threat.
Racial Profiling Of African-American Males: Stopped, Searched, And Stripped Of Constitutional Protection, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 439 (2004), Floyd D. Weatherspoon
Racial Profiling Of African-American Males: Stopped, Searched, And Stripped Of Constitutional Protection, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 439 (2004), Floyd D. Weatherspoon
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race-Based Jury Nullification: Case-In-Chief, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 911 (1997), Paul D. Butler
Race-Based Jury Nullification: Case-In-Chief, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 911 (1997), Paul D. Butler
UIC Law Review
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Race-Based Jury Nullification: Rebuttal (Part A), 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 923 (1997), Andrew D. Leipold
Race-Based Jury Nullification: Rebuttal (Part A), 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 923 (1997), Andrew D. Leipold
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Procedural Due Process And The Convicted Prisoner, 10 J. Marshall J. Of Prac. & Proc. 313 (1977), James A. Pitts
Procedural Due Process And The Convicted Prisoner, 10 J. Marshall J. Of Prac. & Proc. 313 (1977), James A. Pitts
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.