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“The Crystal Clanton case shows a system failure”

HowAppealing

“The Crystal Clanton case shows a system failure”: Online at The Washington Post, columnist Ruth Marcus has an essay that begins, “Well, so much for getting to the bottom of the story of Crystal Clanton, the judicial law clerk accused of sending racist texts.”

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Afghanistan dispatches: major Afghan bank faces failure as banking system wobbles under Taliban

JURIST

Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul comments on reports of a pending bank failure that would be the first since the Taliban took power in August. Recently, the UNDP issued a report assessing the status of Afghanistan’s banking and financial system prior to 15 August 2021 and during the past three months.

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Georgia Inmate’s Death Highlights Systemic Failures Within Fulton County Jail

The Crime Report

A Fulton County, Georgia inmate’s recent death highlights systematic failures within Fulton’s jail and across its criminal justice system, Dylan Jackson reports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The strains on the system began during the pandemic as the court case backlog ballooned the jail population.

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Report Highlights Failures in Texas Death Row System

The Crime Report

The cause, according to the report, is Harris County’s indigent defense system for capital cases, which creates “an inherent conflict of interest,” where lawyers may feel pressure to rush a case or request insufficient resources to remain in a judge’s good graces.

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BREAKING: Robinhood To Pay Record $70M FINRA Penalty Over 'Systemic' Failures

Law 360

million in restitution on Wednesday over what the regulator called "systemic supervisory failures" that harmed millions of customers. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority hit Robinhood Financial LLC with a record $57 million fine and ordered it to pay $12.6

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COVID-19 in Jails Worsened by Systemic Failures: Report

The Crime Report

Structural issues are a central cause of deaths and infections among both inmates and staff as a result of COVID-19, reports the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s independent student-run newspaper.

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Pre-COVID Rise in Prison Deaths Called Evidence of System Failure

The Crime Report

corrections system, new data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) shows that prisons were “deadly” places long before the pandemic, says the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI). The systemic neglect of illness and aging in prison populations isn’t natural at all,” declared PPI. While COVID has been wreaking havoc across the U.S.