All posts by Catherine Morrisey
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Wrongfully jailed: Records detail more than 500 mistaken-identity arrests in Denver in seven years
More than 500 people were wrongly imprisoned in Denver’s jails over seven years, with some spending weeks incarcerated or pleading guilty to crimes they did...
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2 Ordered To Stand Trial In Richmond Lesbian Gang Rape
A judge ordered two men, ages 34 and 18, to stand trial on kidnapping, gang rape and hate crime charges for allegedly gang raping a...
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Women with Walkers and Wheelchairs Close San Francisco Bank Of America Branch
Tita Caldwell, 80, led the charge of women with walkers and wheelchairs, against Bank of America in San Francisco, CA. last week, explaining that she...
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Brazil’s Insidious New Pregnancy Registration Law Violates the Privacy of Women
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was gathering a group a conservative legislators to stealthily assist in drafting and enacting a Ceauşescu-like law requiring all...
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Adieu to ‘Mademoiselle’: French Town Bans ‘Sexist’ Term
Cesson-Sévigné, a suburb of Rennes, France, has banned the use of the title “mademoiselle” on all official forms starting January 1, 2012. Two feminist groups...
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France to pay for breast implant removal over cancer fear
The French government will pay for tens of thousands of women to have silicone breast implants removed over concerns about a possible link to a...
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Suit: Arizona authorities shackled pregnant inmate
A Mexican woman — a former inmate in Maricopa County, Arizona — claims in a lawsuit that sheriff’s officers mistreated her during and after her...
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Gingrich to gay man: Vote for Obama
When asked how he plans to engage the gay community in his bid for president, Newt Gingrich on Tuesday told a voter he wouldn’t be...
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Occupy Denver protesters disrupt vigil held to honor homeless who died in past year
After days of urging protesters to remove shanties from the Broadway sidewalk along Civic Center park, across the street from the site of Tuesday’s candlelight...
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U.S. Poverty: Census Finds Nearly Half Of Americans Are Poor Or Low-Income
Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans – nearly 1 in 2 – have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on...
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Arpaio investigation results to be released
The Justice Department began its civil-rights investigation of Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio in 2008 and publicly disclosed the probe in March 2009 after months of complaints alleging...
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1 in 3 Women Affected by Partner's Violent Behavior
More than one in three women have experienced sexual assault, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime, according to a Centers...
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The Case For Peeking Inside The Slaughterhouse
A new report from the National Research Council (an arm of the National Academy of Sciences) argues that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety...
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Some Combat Dogs Suffer Post-Traumatic Stress, Too
The United States military has long used canines to assist in times of war. Dogs help troops sniff out bombs, clear buildings and locate enemy...
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HHS’s birth-control rules intrude on Catholic values
Catholic University President John Garvey wrote in The Washington Post that new federal regulations requiring employers to provide no-cost prescription birth control as part of their health...
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Young, Gay And Homeless: Fighting For Resources
A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities assert that somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay,...