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...Senator, and William Pryor Jr., Sessions' successor as attorney general and now a federal judge. Young, whose detailed statements are described in documents obtained by TIME, became a key witness in a major case in Alabama that brought down a high-profile politician and landed him in federal prison with an 88-month sentence. As it happened, however, that official was the top Democrat named by Young in a series of interviews, and none of the Republicans whose campaigns he fingered were investigated in the case, let alone prosecuted...
...Unfortunately, last week’s murders were only the latest in a long list of egregious human rights violations perpetrated by the junta. Well over 1,000 pro-democracy activists—including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi—are now being held in prison and under house arrest. Even more disconcertingly, the Burmese military has destroyed more than 200 villages in the ethnic-minority Karen state, according to Human Rights Watch. The rights group estimates that more than 500,000 Burmese civilians have lost their homes as a result of the junta?...
...that they shed their citizenry, that they give up the privileges and protections of society for them and their families. The law does not demur to strip away their freedom, and they fill up the ranks of inmates in wild overproportion—over 55 percent of the federal prison population is incarcerated for drug offenses...
...said. A police officer raced her down to Ground Zero, and rescue workers put their lives at risk searching for the man in the unstable rubble. Then Mejia vanished. Four months later, she pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment in Manhattan Supreme Court and was sentenced to three years in prison...
There have also been other high profile cases in which discrimination has seemed to play a role. In 2005, Shaquanda Cotton, a 16-year-old girl from Texas, was sentenced to serve up to seven years in prison for pushing a teacher’s aide. In Georgia, Genarlow Wilson, now 21, faces molestation charges from engaging in consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when...