Ten New York corrections officers were charged Thursday in the 2024 death of inmate Robert Brooks at a state prison. Six of the officers, Anthony Farina, Nicholas Anzalone, David Kingsley, Christopher Walrath, Matthew Gallagher and one other officer, have been charged with second-degree murder; three others, Michael Mashaw, Michael Fisher and David Walters, face manslaughter [...]

Continuing one of America’s most influential legacies, Dr. Bernice A. King has established herself as a formidable force for justice and reconciliation in her own right. As we mark Black History Month, JURIST Senior Editor Pitasanna Shanmugathas sits down with the youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—a woman who was just five years [...]

The Office of the Attorney General was established some 200 years before the first woman ever served in the role (Janet Reno, 1993-2001). It would take an additional decade for the first person of color to hold the office (Alberto Gonzales, 2005-2007). Since the passage of the 1789 Judiciary Act — the law that created [...]

The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) published a new report on Thursday commending Ukraine’s ongoing efforts to combat corruption among parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors. The report acknowledges Ukraine’s commitment to anti-corruption measures, especially given Russia’s ongoing invasion. The report highlights that Ukraine has satisfactorily implemented 18 out of 31 recommendations given [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed serious worries about Mexico’s handling of homicide investigations in a new report released Wednesday. HRW’s findings indicate that Mexican officials consistently overlook crucial investigative procedures, leading to an overwhelming number of homicide cases that remain unsolved. The HRW report shows that procedural mistakes are widespread, crime scenes are frequently unpreserved, forensic [...]

Brazil Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday ordered X Brasil Internet Ltda. (the Brazil branch of what was formerly Twitter) to pay a fine of R$8.1 million (approximately $1.4 million) due to a lack of compliance with multiple court orders. The penalty arose from the platform’s refusal to provide registration details of [...]

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles said Wednesday that migrants deported from the US could be held in Costa Rica for four to six weeks before being sent to their home countries. This comes after the Costa Rican government announced its intent to collaborate with the US in the repatriation of undocumented immigrants originally from [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sent California congressman Robert Garcia a letter Monday insinuating that Garcia’s comments about Elon Musk on CNN constituted a threat, and asking for clarification. Garcia said on the air in response to a question about how Democrats can stop Elon Musk, “What the American public wants is for us [...]

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a law student at the University of Windsor and a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.  Montreal-based author and activist Yves Engler turned himself in to Montreal police for arrest at 9:30 am Thursday on multiple charges, initially for social media posts about the Israel-Gaza conflict and subsequently [...]

The UN Human Rights Committee found on Thursday that Albania violated the rights of three Roma children by failing to register their births, leaving them without legal recognition and at risk of statelessness. The three children, born in Greece to Albanian parents, could not be properly registered because the parents lacked residency status. At the [...]