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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
The impending February 28, 2019 execution date for 70-year-old Texas condemned inmate Billie Coble underscores the issue of the nation’s aging death row population. According to the Texas Tribune, there were 224 inmates housed on Texas’s death row as of…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
In 2008, Blaine Milam and Jessica Carson were 18-year-old teenagers living together in Milam’s trailer in Rusk County, Texas. Jessica had a 13-month-old child named Amora Carson. The couple met earlier that year while Jessica was still in high school.…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The recent, and longest, government shutdown has focused public attention on claims by President Donald Trump and his Wall proponents that crime is not only a major problem but is actually out of control along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Both…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Bite mark evidence has long been a discredit forensic science. The FBI has renounced it and the American Dental Association does not recognize it.
And for good reason.
In June 2013, USAToday reported that 20 men convicted or…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Immigration Crimes
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Republican candidate promised potential voters that he would “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. and “make our government honest once again.”
President Trump is unquestionably the most prolific liar in our presidential history. The…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Forfeiture
Civil asset forfeiture is nothing short of policing for profit. The concept of the government seizing personal property and assets for charged and uncharged criminal activity is a growing criminal enterprise at both the federal and state level.
Writing…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
In 2016, the Prison Policy Initiative estimated there are 2,298,300 people incarcerated in the United States: 1,316,000 of whom are in state prisons and 615,000 in local jails and 225,000 in federal prisons and jails. The Committee for a Responsible…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
The ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the establishment of a federal government did not bring with it a federal prison system. Individuals who ran afoul of the federal government and ended up with a federal criminal conviction served whatever…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2013, Eric Hillman was employed as an assistant district attorney in Nueces County, Texas. Mark Skurka was the duly elected district attorney for the county at the time. He was Hillman’s employer.
In 2014, Hillman found himself…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
Writing in the November 4, 2018 edition of Law 360, Michael Macagnone pointed out that the current lame duck Republican-controlled Congress has slightly more than two months to come to terms with a number of sentencing and prison reform issues…
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