Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Cruel and Unusual: Growing Old on Death Row
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.…
Texas Halts Execution of An Intellectually Disabled Person
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…
Texas Border Security and Crime
The recent, and longest, government shutdown has focused public attention on claims by President Donald Trump and his Wall proponents that crime is not…
Innocent Man Exonerated After 28 Years in Prison, Bite Mark Evidence Kicked Out of Texas Courts
Bite mark evidence has long been a discredit forensic science. The FBI has renounced it and the American Dental Association does not recognize it.…
White Collar Bandits Loot the Country, Immigration Crimes Take Priority
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…
Texas Civil Asset Forfeiture Once Again Under Scrutiny
Civil asset forfeiture is nothing short of policing for profit. The concept of the government seizing personal property and assets for charged and uncharged…
The Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration
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…
The First Step Act: Only A Small Step Towards 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…
Can A Prosecutor Be Fired for Refusing to Violate the Law?
In 2013, Eric Hillman was employed as an assistant district attorney in Nueces County, Texas. Mark Skurka was the duly elected district attorney for…
Lame Duck Congress Faces Criminal Justice Reform Dilemma
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…
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