Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Lower Crime Rates, Diversionsary Programs, and Cost Lead to Reduced Prison Populations
The United States prison population peaked in 2009 with more than two million incarcerated people in state and federal prisons. The nation’s prison population…
The Pitfalls of Federal Plea Agreements
The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) in 2019 formed The Plea Bargain Task Force (Task Force) “to address persistent criticisms…
Harris County Jail: “Place of Torment and Punishment”
There are more than 3,000 county jails in the United States. They house more than 650,000 inmates on any given day. Roughly 70 percent…
Forensic Expert Harry Lee Held Liable for Faulty Forensic Testimony
With so many television crime drama shows relying on forensic evidence to capture the guilty party, it is understandable why there is a broad…
Family of Man Killed in Harris County Jail Overcome Qualified Immunity
Pasadena, Texas, population 152,000, is a suburban community in Harris County that falls on the outskirts of the greater Houston metropolitan area. In the…
Fifth Circuit Closes Door on Bail Reform Litigation
In the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, federal courts across the country suddenly faced an increasing number of lawsuits from state prisoners…
Right Wing Co-opts “Rogue Prosecutor”
The term “rogue prosecutor” was coined to refer to unethical, even criminal prosecutors who lie, cheat, and engage in every stripe of professional misconduct…
Muslims Continue to be Target of Post 911 Hate, Bigotry
The new Netflix docuseries, American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing, released in anticipation of the first decade anniversary of the April 15, 2013, Boston…
Prosecutorial Misconduct Exposed, Again…
Bad prosecutors are not a new phenomenon. They have existed since the Founders envisioned an adversarial judicial process when forming the United States of…
The Phoenix Police Execution of Jacob Harris
On January 11, 2019, a 19-year-old African American teenager named Jacob Harris was gunned down by law enforcement officers with the Phoenix Police Department…
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