We start with our weekly State Terror Roundup, then: the industry behind police consultants is vast – ProPublica recently published an investigative piece focusing on the fake science used to justify one branch of that consulting – 911 call analysis. Brett Murphy is an investigative journalist with ProPublica. His latest piece is called: “They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.”
Read Brett Murphy’s story here: https://www.propublica.org/article/911-call-analysis-fbi-police-courts
Follow Brett Murphy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrettMmurphy
Between 2005 and 2013, California sterilized over 850 people in women’s prisons either without their consent, and in some cases without even their knowledge. A state program, in theory is trying to locate these women to pay them reparations to the tune of $15,000 a year, but with just a year left before the program shuts down, only 51 women have received checks. We are joined by Hafsah Al-Amin, program coordinator with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners who has been working on the sterilization reparations program for years, along with Moonlight Pulido, who is a survivor of forced sterilization while incarcerated at Valley State Prison in Stockton in 2005. She has received reparations funds and is working to get access for that to other survivors.
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Check out CCWP’s website: https://womenprisoners.org/
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