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
Aug.06
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
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…
July30
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty | Uncategorized
In a July 25, 2019 press release, the U.S. Justice Department (“DOJ”) announced that Attorney General William P. Barr has directed the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to adopt a Proposed Addendum Federal Execution Protocol—a protocol that mirrors the protocols followed…
July27
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
There are nearly 7 million people under criminal justice supervision in the United States—2.2 million in prison or jail and another 4.6 million under probation or parole supervision in the general community. Celebrated crime novelist and criminal justice reform advocate…
July09
2019
2019
This country now has a corrupt, dishonest, and unethical businessman serving his first term as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer—President Donald J. Trump.
As a matter of disclaimer, let us say at the outset, we strongly believe the…
June25
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | Crimes Against Children | Criminal Justice Reform
The Flores Settlement Agreement is a 1997 court settlement that places limits on the length of time in which migrant children can be held in detention and defines the conditions under which these children are incarcerated.
President Trump’s administration…
June15
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
The Texas money bail system is hopelessly corrupt, economically discriminatory and patently unconstitutional.
Like in most state legislatures, individual lawmakers over the past several years in the Texas Legislature have attempted to reform the state’s antiquated money bail system…
June02
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Texas is a death penalty state; in fact, it has executed more people than any other state since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. Many of the 561 people put to death by the state since the 1982…
Apr.24
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The State of Nevada stands poised to become the 34th state to pass legislation providing for compensation to those wrongfully convicted of crimes. Nevada’s epiphany came after Fred Steese was exonerated in 2012 after spending more than two decades in…
Mar.17
2019
2019
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform
In an excellent October 18, 2018 piece published in the Texas Observer and written for Harper’s Magazine, Melissa del Bosque, a Lanman Reporting Fellow with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, delivered a message of just how powerful the…
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