Armed takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge winds down Obama slashes solitary confinement in federal prisons SCOTUS ruling gives second chance to prisoners sentenced to life as juveniles Florida legislature takes up several bills...
A nearly month-long takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon appears to be coming to an end, with just four people remaining at the site Friday morning, eleven of the group’s members now in...
This week the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider reviving what would have been the most restrictive abortion law in the country – North Dakota’s so-called “Fetal Heartbeat Law.” The law would have banned...
In India, six hunger strikers have been hospitalized and protests are growing across the country after an expelled Dalit graduate student committed suicide in the southern city of Hyderabad. FSRN’s Jasvinder Sehgal reports. Download...
Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Eleven years ago, the United Nations General Assembly designated the day to commemorate Holocaust victims. The date coincides with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The Holocaust...
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Denmark’s parliament voted in favor of new laws regarding asylum seekers Tuesday. It is now legal for the government to seize assets worth more than $1,400 from refugees for the stated purpose of paying...
In an op-ed published by the Washington Post, President Obama announced some major changes to bring more humanity to the criminal justice system. Tanya Snyder has more. Download Audio FSRN Profile: Meet Steven Czifra,...
In a Washington Post op-ed, President Obama announced dramatic reforms to the federal prison system’s use of solitary confinement, including slashing the amount of time an individual should spend in solitary and abolishing it...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that could free people currently in prison who were sentenced as juveniles to life without parole. In 2012, the court ruled in Miller v. Alabama...
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