Latest: The town of Forks, Washington will pay $1 million to the family of a woman who committed suicide in jail after being tormented by a guard.

The guard was later convicted of sexually assaulting four other incarcerated women reason.com/2022/11/16/was… just chew over these paragraphs

Lot of juvenile justice news lately:

- Yesterday Mississippi enacted a law raising the minimum age for juvenile detention from 10 to 12. It passed into law without the governor's signature billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2021/pdf/histo… - Maryland is considering legislation to prohibit charging children younger than 13 with a crime wbaltv.com/article/juveni…

I’m at the pro-Trump American Priority festival at Trump’s Doral resort. George Papadopoulos is here signing copies of his book, “Deep State Target” There’s a big empty room here with TVs and projectors playing videos by that “carpe donktum” guy

Here's one for you: A DEA agent got a drug trafficker to buy a $43,000 truck so the agent could seize it through asset forfeiture and use it as his work vehicle Oh, some charges are for convincing the drug dealer to identify the wrong person as a major trafficker at a trial, and also for lying on the stand himself.

And 2 Louisiana cops are apparently wrapped up in all this for armed robbery under the color of law

The will be ~today's thread~ on the FIRST STEP Act. Amendments will be debated and voted on today, possibly final vote on the bill a well.

Dick Durbin currently on the floor urging members to vote no on Tom Cotton's amendments, citing letters from crime victim groups. Here we go. We're on to amendments now. Sen. Gardner now proposing amendment that would essentially legalize marijuana at the federal level in states that have done so

https://twitter.com/SenatePress/status/1075113590309433349