Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
The U.S. Justice Department’s War on Migrant Children
The Flores Settlement Agreement is a 1997 court settlement that places limits on the length of time in which migrant children can be held…
REFORM OF MONEY BAIL SYSTEM AGAIN FAILS IN TEXAS LEGISLATURE
The Texas money bail system is hopelessly corrupt, economically discriminatory and patently unconstitutional. Like in most state legislatures, individual lawmakers over the past several…
Texas Senators Refuse to Prevent Executions of Intellectually Disabled
Texas is a death penalty state; in fact, it has executed more people than any other state since the reinstatement of the death penalty…
Prosecutorial Misconduct Continues Despite Change
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…
Coastal Regions of US Becoming Police State
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…
Manafort Sentence Highlights Sentencing Disparities
A Texas African-American woman was sentenced last March to five years in a state prison because she voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election.…
Trump’s Lies and Immigrant Fear Mongering
Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 with a direct, blatant racist appeal. A 2018 study by the Proceedings of the Academy of…
Gov Abbott Uses Doublespeak to Resist Bail Reform
The Texas Tribune recently reported that the Texas Legislature will once again take up the politically controversial issue of bail reform. Bipartisan legislation introduced…
Two Faces of Death Penalty Injustice
Robert Jennings was 31 years old when he entered a Houston adult book store on July 20, 1988 with the intent to rob it.…
Marzieh Hashemi: Muslim Reporter Used as Pawn in Gutter Politics?
Marzieh Hashemi is natural born citizen of the United States. She was born in New Orleans in 1959 and given her American name, Melanie…
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