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Immigrants' Rights

Legal advocates call for ban on ICE arrests without warrants at Cook County courthouses

Legal advocates want ICE to stop making arrests outside Cook County courthouses.

ABC 7 Chicago

Immigrants' Rights

Advocates petition Cook County chief judge to bar courthouse arrests without warrants

Court advocates say when armed federal agents show up at county courthouses, they create an atmosphere that affects undocumented immigrants and everyone who works there.

FOX32 Chicago

Immigrants' Rights

Legal advocates want judge to stop some ICE arrests in or near Cook County courthouses

Legal advocates on Wednesday were set to submit a petition seeking to stop U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making civil arrests at and around Cook County courthouses.

CBS News

Wrongful Convictions

Juror fights to overturn conviction, years after she sent a teenager away

“Justice delayed is justice denied,” Megan Crane says. “Mike has now been 26 and a half years without justice, and sure, he’s been home three years on lifetime parole, but he still doesn’t know who killed his mother, and he and his family haven’t seen justice for that.”

St. Louis Magazine

Advocating for the Rights of the Incarcerated

He’s on Death Row for Murders. Prison Workers Say He Should Be Spared.

Brian Dorsey, who pleaded guilty to murder in the 2006 killings of Sarah and Ben Bonnie, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday unless Missouri’s governor or the courts step in.

The New York Times

Wrongful Convictions

Chicago City Council OKs $50 million settlement with 4 men wrongfully convicted of 1995 murders

"Charles, Larod, Lashawn, and Troshawn are among the scores of kids who the Chicago Police Department has targeted for false arrest and coercive interrogations over the years, leading to Chicago's reputation as the False Confession Capital of the country," said Alex Van Brunt, Johnson's attorney and the director of the Illinois office of the MacArthur Justice Center, in a statement after the approval of the settlement.

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