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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
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 the “Crossroads of North Mississippi” located in Montgomery County.
The town reflects what award-winning author…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
There are roughly 2.3 million people incarcerated in the U.S. prison system.
In 2018, the Chicago Tribune reported that anywhere from 2 to 10 percent of those people are innocent. This estimate means that between 46,000 and 230,000 innocent…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The release of thousands of unjustly jailed citizens, an end to solitary confinement, a ban on private prisons, and raising the bar on prosecutorial accountability are all important criminal justice reforms gaining traction on the 2020 campaign trail.
However,…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2003, three men were indicted for capital murder in connection with the April 3rd murders of two people during an attempted robbery of a Harris County business, ACE America’s Cash Express. One of the victims was an employee at…
The nation’s bail bonds industry is a $2 billion-plus enterprise—an enterprise that in many respects borders on being criminal. The wealth of the industry is, and has historically been, built on the backs of poor people (most often people of…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The criminal justice system in America is often blind to injustice and, more often than not, cruel and unusual.
As of 2017, the Sentencing Project reported that there were nearly 162,000 people in the U.S. prison system serving life…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
As of this writing, there have been 2,481 exonerations in the United States since 1989—nearly 400 of them through DNA exoneration. Roughly 35 percent of the total exonerations and 69 percent of the DNA exonerations involved misidentification issues.
Many…
In a rare unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 handed down the landmark decision known as Gideon v. Wainwright. The decision held that the state must provide indigent criminal defendants appointed counsel if they cannot afford to retain…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Hate Crime
Congress passed the Michael Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. § 249) in 2009. The FBI reports there were 7100 hate crimes in the U.S. in 2017, and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
The Harris County money bail system has been historically corrupt, favoring wealth over poverty. If an arrested suspect had money, they could post bail and be released pretria, while an indigent suspect had to spend months, even years in the…
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