Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Prisons Reforms Need to Curb Abuse, Excessive Force
Steve J. Martin is a “prison expert.” His expertise has been utilized by the U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Homeland Security Department, and the federal…
Police Reform: The Only Road to Public Safety
An unprecedented 95 percent of Americans favor criminal justice reforms that include police reforms. The National Opinion Research Center (“NORC”) at the University of…
Law Enforcement Resists Reform
For over a decade, we have written about the “ epidemic ” of police misconduct and the devastating impact of systemic racism inside the…
Divisive Politics and Racism of the Criminal Justice System
Top officials of the Trump administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr,claimthere is no “systemic racism” in law enforcement in this country. Yet the…
Violent Police Misconduct Protected By Qualified Immunity
The murder of George Floyd by police in Minnesota has brought demands for racial justice to a pitched boil after generations of racial profiling,…
Police Homicide, President Trump and the Complicity of White America
In July 2017, President Donald J. Trump, as the nation’s “ chief law enforcement officer ” as he likes to call himself, implored police…
Ahmuad Arbery Fell to Racist Deeds of A Bad Cop
Two white men, 64-year-old Gregory McMichael and his 34-year-old son, Travis, are under arrest for the February 23, 2020 shooting death of an unarmed…
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery: The Old South’s Legacy of Lynching Rears its Ugly Head.
In 2017, the Equal Justice Initiative issued a report, “ Lynching in America: Confronting The Legacy of Racial Terror ,” that shows the state…
Gov. Abbott Fights Judges Over COVID Compassionate Release
Gradually, inevitably, the COVID 19 virus is working its way through the Texas jail and prison systems. There are roughly 7,500 to 10,000 inmates…
TX Governor Halts Jail Release During Pandemic
Each year worldwide, some 30 million people spend time in a prison or some other form of detention. Eleven million people are incarcerated around…
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