Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Adnan Syed’s Case Exemplifies Systemic Problems in the Criminal System
Justice is kaleidoscopic. Its definition generates a myriad of concepts, none of which are precise and definitive. But the case of Adnan Syed offers…
Despite Governor’s Fear Mongering, Bail Reform Works in Harris County
In current reelection campaign ads, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tries to bolster his artificial “law-and-order” bona fides with assertions that he stopped dangerous criminal…
Courts Allow Botched Executions, License to Torture
On July 29, 2022, Joe Nathan Jones, Jr. was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. in the death chamber at a prison in southern Alabama.…
Accountability for Police Misconduct Necessary Tool for Reform
On October 17, 2019, a 24-year-old black man named Demonte Ward-Blake was driving a vehicle in Oxon Hill, Maryland, with his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter…
Texas, Harris County Lead Country in Exonerations and Wrongful Convictions
As of July 21, 2022, the National Registry of exonerations reports that there have been 3,184 exonerations in criminal cases since 1989. These numbers…
Official Jury Tampering in Harris and Brazoria County
Texan and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark once said , “The jury system improves the quality of justice and is the…
Bail Reform is Not the Cause of Rising Crime
The COVID 19 pandemic (“pandemic”) taught the American criminal justice system one thing: the nation’s cash bail system is a for-profit practice that has…
Reports of the Death of Criminal Justice Reform Largely Exaggerated
17-year-old high school student Trayvon Martin was murdered in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012. Seventeen months later, his killer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted.…
Police Misconduct, Abuse and Violence: A Continuing Social Disorder
The National Registry of Exonerations announced on March 15, 2022, that 33 of the 45 exonerations announced in February involved people falsely accused of…
DA Kim Ogg’s Politics of Executions
After her November 2016 election as district attorney of Harris County, Kim Ogg said she would reduce the use of the death penalty with…
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