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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Brutality | Police Misconduct
The brutal beating and killing of Tyre Nichols on January 7, 2023, by the Scorpion Unit of the Memphis Police Department (“MPD”) reveals the disconnect between law enforcement’s concept of law and order with society’s need to be protected and…
Category: Bail / Bail Laws | Criminal Justice Reform
Most people involved in the nation’s criminal justice recognize the need for bail reform. However, most Americans, citing the fear of violent crime across the country, are adamantly opposed to any “bail reform” This opposition crosses political lines.
The Illinois…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
American policing is infected with a cynicism towards the very people it is supposed to protect. State and federal law enforcement see the dark, ugly and dangerous side of humanity on a daily basis. They are also trained from a…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prisoners Rights
The Walnut Street Jail was constructed in Philadelphia in 1773—two years before the start of the American Revolution. It was built, as most jails and prisons are, to relieve overcrowding at another city jail. Its original purpose was…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Police misconduct is the historical scourge of American policing. It raises its head in media from time to time with a horrific incident caught on video, but in reality, it thrives in communities across the country every day.
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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
The right to a fair and impartial trial is the bedrock of a democratic system of government. This right is enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Sec. 10, of the Texas Constitution.
The State…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Justice is kaleidoscopic. Its definition generates a myriad of concepts, none of which are precise and definitive.
But the case of Adnan Syed offers a timeline of injustice inflicted by the massive power of the State.
The Syed saga began…
Category: bail reform | Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
In current reelection campaign ads, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tries to bolster his artificial “law-and-order” bona fides with assertions that he stopped dangerous criminal predators from being released from jail through a “cashless” bail system. The campaign ad is vintage…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
On July 29, 2022, Joe Nathan Jones, Jr. was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. in the death chamber at a prison in southern Alabama. Media witnesses said that before the death pronouncement was made, Jones lay motionless on the death…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
On October 17, 2019, a 24-year-old black man named Demonte Ward-Blake was driving a vehicle in Oxon Hill, Maryland, with his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter as a passenger in the backseat. The car had expired tags. A Prince George County Police…
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