by Renée Feltz | Sep 23, 2026 | Bill Lee, Capital Punishment, clemency, Death Penalty, Death Row, Execution, Executions, Gov. Bill Lee, News, Prisons, Rape, sex trafficking, Sexual Assault, Sexual Violence, Solitary Confinement, Tennessee, Torture, Trauma
Christa Pike was sexually abused and raped from the time when she was a toddler until almost a year to the day before she was arrested in 1995 at age 18 for murdering fellow teenager Colleen Slemmer when the two attended a job training program for troubled youth in Knoxville. Tennessee officials do not dispute these facts. “I think everybody in this courtroom wishes that those things had…
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by Leigh Goodmark | Dec 4, 2025 | Abolition, Criminalization, Feminism, Op-Ed, Pennsylvania, prison reform, Prisons, sex trafficking, Violence
Pennsylvania State Sen. Amanda Capalletti recently announced her intention to propose legislation that would allow people convicted of crimes related to resisting their own abuse to ask for shorter sentences. The legislation also enables those already serving long sentences for crimes substantially related to their experiences of violence to seek resentencing. The law is meant to offer hope…
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by Chris Walker | Nov 13, 2025 | Donald Trump, Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Michael Wolff, News, sex trafficking
Newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and accused trafficker who was once good friends with President Donald Trump, reveal that Trump was likely aware of the disgraced financier’s misdeeds. The emails from Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend and co-conspirator in the sex trafficking scheme, as well as to author Michael Wolff…
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