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Jessica Hicklin served 26 years in a maximum security prison for murdering someone when she was 16 years old. While incarcerated, Hicklin taught herself to code and built skills she could use outside of prison. Now, nine months after her release, she's excited to bring that same opportunity to others with UnLocked Labs, which she co-founded with Haley Shoaf.
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As a state task force works to ready justice system, amendments could be forthcoming.
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The executive order says police must announce themselves three times before entering a premises on the basis of a warrant.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger's new book explores how county and municipal courts exploit people, creating a cycle that dooms poor people to mountains of debt and frequent jail stays.
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Nearly 70% of St. Louis homicides last year occurred in low-income areas with no access to a grocery store or supermarket for at least half a mile.
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St. Louis officials plan to use part of the Medium Security Institution known as the Workhouse as a temporary holding facility after most inmates are moved this week. Public Safety officials said they’ll use the Workhouse if the City Justice Center becomes too crowded.
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The Bail Project's Mike Milton is starting a new diversion program that will work with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office: The Freedom Community Center. He discussed it with John Nanney of UMSL on St. Louis on the Air.
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It’s been more than six years since Michael Brown’s killing made St. Louis the epicenter of the most promising civil rights movement since the 1960s. Yet despite stacks of studies and seemingly unprecedented public support for change, St. Louis has not seen a single substantive victory for police reform, thanks in large part to an influential police union and a larger police apparatus that has stymied accountability.
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After a jury found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all counts, activists gathered in downtown St. Louis to call for continued action against police brutality.
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Since late December, five protests have erupted at the Justice Center in downtown St. Louis. This latest came Sunday night, when a group of detainees broke windows on the third floor and threw objects out the windows. Inmates could be heard chanting, “We need help” and “We want court dates.”