September 29, 2020 – Jamaicans for Justice sends our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of two members of Jamaica’s security forces shot and killed in the line of duty on Sept. 25 and…
A studio portrait of Mario Deane in his twenties. Photo courtesy of Mercia Frazer.
By Tori Tulloch
Since the police-involved death of thirty-one-year-old Mario Deane in 2014, the journey of his case through the criminal justice system has taken more than…
On May 27, 2020, Minister of Justice the Honourable Delroy Chuck
tabled a motion in Parliament regarding amendments to the INDECOM Act, 2010.
This action follows a recent ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council – Jamaica’s…
MAY 30, 2020 – Jamaicans for Justice is deeply concerned by the news of the killing of Susan Bogle – a disabled woman…
by Kathrina Dabdoub
May 23, 2020 marks ten years since a State of Emergency (SOE) was declared, and over 1,000 members of the Jamaica security forces were deployed in and around the communities of Tivoli…
On March 25, 2019, Jamaica’s highest Court of Appeal, The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council delivered a landmark judgement in a case filed by Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) against the Police Service…
In 2019 Jamaicans for Justice trained over 996 police recruits in human rights prior to deployment in the fields. Learn more about our police training initiative.
Since 2000, over 3,300 Jamaicans have been killed by state
security forces. Jamaica faces a crisis on two fronts: a crisis of high crime,
and crisis of violence and abuse by security forces (disproportionately
impacting poor…