Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Three Stooges Block Compassionate Release During Pandemic
In response to the growing threat of COVID-19, some responsible public officials, activists, and experts in Harris County have demanded that non-dangerous “accused” people…
No Compensation for The Wrongfully Convicted
How much should a state be required to pay a person it wrongfully convicts and keeps in prison for 43 years? The State of…
Michael Bloomberg’s History of Racial Profiling, Authoritarianism
Former New York mayor and current Democratic Party presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has a dark authoritarian history. That is not in dispute. Writing in…
Criminal Justice Reform Being Exploited
President Donald J. Trump could not find the truth in his heart anymore than he could find Kansas City in Kansas or Hurricane Dorian…
Prosecutorial Misconduct in Sights of Reformers
Prosecutorial misconduct and police misconduct played a part in 79 percent of the 54 wrongful homicide convictions announced in 2018 and reported last year…
Cruel and Unusual Justice: A Historical, Surging American Phenomenon
In August 2017, Willie Nash was arrested on misdemeanor charges and placed in the Newton County Jail in Decatur, Mississippi. Nash was in possession…
Confederacy Death Machine Marched on in 2019
Twenty-two condemned men were put to death in the U.S. in 2019. All but two of the executions were carried out in former Confederate…
Is Arkansas Governor Responsible for Execution of Innocent Man?
Since the U.S. Supreme Court gave its constitutional blessing to the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, the state of Arkansas has executed…
The Texas Seven and The Law of Parties
Seven inmates escaped from the John B. Connally prison facility near Kenedy, Texas in December 2000. They became known as the “Texas Seven.” Eleven…
Doug Evans: Prosecutor Promoting Institutional Racism
Winona, a town of slightly more than 5,000 people, sits right in the center of the northern part of Mississippi. It is known as…
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