December 11, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Jury finds white Oklahoma City cop Daniel Holtzclaw guilty of 18 counts of rape and sexual assault, all against black women.
- The full testimonies of the 13 women who accused Holtzclaw of rape and sexual assault.
- Holtzclaw's mistake that got him caught: assuming all black women in Oklahoma City wouldn't call the cops on him.
- Angola warden Burl Cain to step down over shady real estate deals with favored inmates' relatives.
- The investigation into Burl Cain's real estate dealings that forced his resignation.
- The Angola 3: three prisoners, jailed under questionable evidence, who endured decades of solitary confinement.
- Angola, a former plantation, forces much of its 75% black population to pick cotton and other crops for up to 20 cents an hour.
- How Louisiana became the world's prison capital, with the highest rate of incarceration on the planet.
- Over the past decade, tens of thousands of children have been arrested—sometimes violently—by San Bernardino school police.
- Report finds quality of education for tens of thousands of minors in detention falls short of an average public school education.
- Abuse and deaths at for-profit Florida group homes for the disabled, and how the company skirts sanctions and regulators.
- Reagan-era sentencing guidelines led to a Charlotte, NC, mother of two receiving a life sentence for a first-time drug charge.
- Study finds mandatory voting laws lead to the adoption of leftist policies.
- "A friend warned...if I did want to see the Killing Fields, I should go in the morning, so the images wouldn't end up in my dreams."
- How Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam spent their political capital and lost their influence.
- Muslim civil rights group's offices evacuated after receiving envelopes filled with a "mysterious substance."
- Zuckerberg's promise to keep Facebook safe for Muslims won't stop Trump from posting Islamophobia.
- "Were the, uhh, people of Facebook aware that they had a leader? How long has he been leading us? And...where?"
- Today's video: A motorized Lego sculpture of Sisyphus pushing a rock.
