44 Hours in a Baltimore Jail for Filming the Police

Along with hundreds of others, Geremy Faulkner was swept up in one of the haphazard mass arrests that are overwhelming the courts.

Karen Houppert

Without Parents or Lawyers, Thousands of Children Brave Chaos of Immigration Courts Alone

An overwhelmed system struggles to meet President Obama’s order to fast-track deportation hearings on 62,000 lone child migrants.

Karen Houppert

Locked Up Without a Key in New Orleans

Seven years after Katrina, poor people accused of crimes are being denied their right to counsel and left to languish behind bars.

Karen Houppert

KBR on Trial–At Last

 Five years after alerting authorities that she was gang-raped in Iraq, KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones will finally get her day in court

Karen Houppert

KBR’s Rape Problem

Three women contractors raped in Iraq testify before a Senate committee: why has the Justice Department failed to prosecute crimes like these?

Karen Houppert

Another KBR Rape Case

In the wake of Jamie Leigh Jones’s highly publicized charges, a woman comes forward with new allegations of a brutal sexual assault and cover-up at a KBR camp in Iraq.

Karen Houppert

Maryland Judge: Some Domestic Violence Victims Like Being Hit

Domestic violence cases are notoriously difficult to prosecute.

But every once in a while, prosecutors get handed the tools for a conviction on a silver platter: An impartial eyewitness who just happens to be a police officer.

Such was the case in a domestic violence trial that made the local papers here in Maryland last week. A cop pulling into an Exxon station saw a man hit his girlfriend in the face three times, called in back-up and had the man arrested.

Karen Houppert

Nobel Prize Winner “Abandons” Family

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Soldiers Who Steal

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Dispatch from War-Torn Baltimore

I live in Baltimore, Maryland.

At the moment, that is slightly more dangerous than being an American soldier in Afghanistan.

In Afganhistan, just over eighty US soldiers have been killed so far this year. In Baltimore, we’re up to 215 murders in 2007.

Karen Houppert