Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
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…
Prosecutor and Detective Join to Fabricated Evidence to Execute
There has always been, and will always be, a legion of rogue criminal prosecutors who, with tunnel vision to win at all cost, kill…
Harris County DA Kim Ogg’s False Narrative
The tragic shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2015 by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, triggered nationwide protests and the eventual…
The Perils of a Traffic Stop and Injustice of Qualified Immunity
THE PERILS OF A TRAFFIC STOP The Stanford Open Policing Project (SOPR) reports that police conduct 50,000 traffic stops daily. These traffic stops result…
The Pandemic and Prison
A little more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, a picture is emerging as to the effect the pandemic has had on the…
The Costs of Wrongful Convictions and Incarceration
As of April 1, 2022, the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE) reported 3,050 exonerations in the U.S. since 1989. These cases represent 26,700 lost…
Punishment: When is it Cruel and Unusual?
The death penalty is the ultimate punishment imposed in the American criminal justice system. One hundred eight countries have completely abolished the death penalty,…
Criminal Justice Reforms Face Political Fear Mongering
In March of 2021, Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed a Democratic-sponsored legislative bill into law that repealed the state’s death penalty—the 23rd such…
The Tragedy of H. Rap Brown and the Legacy of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
He was born Hubert Gerold Brown. He would become known as H. Rap Brown. He evolved into Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. His name became…
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