The brutal beating and killing of Tyre Nichols on January 7, 2023, by the Scorpion Unit of the Memphis Police Department (“MPD”) reveals the…
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…
American policing is infected with a cynicism towards the very people it is supposed to protect. State and federal law enforcement see the dark,…
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…
Police misconduct is the historical scourge of American policing. It raises its head in media from time to time with a horrific incident caught…
The right to a fair and impartial trial is the bedrock of a democratic system of government. This right is enshrined in the Sixth…
Justice is kaleidoscopic. Its definition generates a myriad of concepts, none of which are precise and definitive. But the case of Adnan Syed offers…
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…
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.…
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…
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