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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
How much should a state be required to pay a person it wrongfully convicts and keeps in prison for 43 years?
The State of Florida wrongfully convicted Nathan Meyers and his uncle, Clifford Williams, for a 1976 murder they…
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Justice Reform
Former New York mayor and current Democratic Party presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has a dark authoritarian history. That is not in dispute.
Writing in a November 2019 edition of The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf wrote a comprehensive piece about why…
President Donald J. Trump could not find the truth in his heart anymore than he could find Kansas City in Kansas or Hurricane Dorian in Alabama.
The president has recently touted “criminal justice reform” in several venues: First, in…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
Prosecutorial misconduct and police misconduct played a part in 79 percent of the 54 wrongful homicide convictions announced in 2018 and reported last year in the National Registry of Exonerations’ report, Exonerations 2018.
These figures are not an anomaly.…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | federal Sentencing
In August 2017, Willie Nash was arrested on misdemeanor charges and placed in the Newton County Jail in Decatur, Mississippi. Nash was in possession of a cellphone at the time of his arrest. During the booking process, jailers either didn’t…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Twenty-two condemned men were put to death in the U.S. in 2019. All but two of the executions were carried out in former Confederate States of America.
Southern states, especially those with historical ties to the Confederacy, have always…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
Since the U.S. Supreme Court gave its constitutional blessing to the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, the state of Arkansas has executed 30 males and 1 female. Thirty of those 31 executions were carried out by lethal injections…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Murder
Seven inmates escaped from the John B. Connally prison facility near Kenedy, Texas in December 2000. They became known as the “Texas Seven.”
Eleven days after their escape, the men robbed a sporting goods store in Irving, Texas. Local…
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…
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