The prison in California, formerly home to well-known actors and one of the nation’s few all-female federal prisons, has come under scrutiny.
Author: Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY
US officials put Americans on alert for Russian cyberattacks as Ukraine war grows
U.S. officials said the most likely short-term cyber impact would be spillover of any cyberattack by Russia against Ukraine.
Rape survivors, child victims, consensual sex partners: San Francisco police have used DNA from all of them for 7 years
The San Francisco Police Department’s use of sexual assault DNA profiles to ID survivors as suspects was “absolutely wrong,” experts told USA TODAY.
No-knock warrants: A growing legacy of controversy, revised laws, tragic deaths
Since March 2020, no-knock warrants have been banned or their use limited across the U.S., including Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Minneapolis.
Biased tweets? Politically-gridlocked civil rights commission squabbles over what to share with public.
A Republican appointee on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights proposed that public information only be shared if it receives a majority vote.
They were trusted to train law enforcement officers, but they were members of an anti-government militia group
65 people on an Oath Keepers sign-up list described themselves as trainers, showing how extremist ideologies have proliferated in police departments.
Philadelphia police seized their property. Most were never convicted of a crime. Most never got their stuff back.
A survey confirms arguments that civil asset forfeiture mostly ensnares law-abiding, low-income people of color, not large, criminal enterprises.
New California police accountability law will strip bad cops of badges, won’t end immunity from lawsuits
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the police accountability bill known as Senate Bill 2 Thursday.
Minnesota judges are hiding jurors’ names when cops go on trial for killing people
Since 2016, four police officers in Minnesota have been put on trial for killing someone on duty. All but one of those cases have been decided by an anonymous jury.
’71 gets a gun’: Graduates of Washington’s police training academy unprepared to patrol streets, law enforcement leaders say
In 2019, a consultant said instruction at the state training academy was inadequate. The problems remain, according to law enforcement officials.