A little more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, a picture is emerging as to the effect the pandemic has had on the nation’s prison and jail systems.
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country…
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A little more than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, a picture is emerging as to the effect the pandemic has had on the nation’s prison and jail systems.
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
As of April 1, 2022, the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE) reported 3,050 exonerations in the U.S. since 1989. These cases represent 26,700 lost years in prison because of wrongful convictions, many of which were obtained through intentional prosecutorial and…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Death Penalty
The death penalty is the ultimate punishment imposed in the American criminal justice system.
One hundred eight countries have completely abolished the death penalty, while another 55 have effectively abolished it by not executing anyone over the last ten years,…
In March of 2021, Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed a Democratic-sponsored legislative bill into law that repealed the state’s death penalty—the 23rd such state to take such action.
State-Sponsored Racism
Many of the lawmakers who voted for the…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
He was born Hubert Gerold Brown. He would become known as H. Rap Brown. He evolved into Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
His name became legendary in the tumultuous civil rights era of the 1960s. The mere mention of “H.…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
There are essentially two kinds of warrants that allow the police to search a residence in pursuit of a criminal suspect or in connection with suspected criminal activity inside: “knock-and-announce” and “no-knock” warrants. Both warrants’ legitimacy and probable cause requirements…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
On January 28, 2019, the Houston Police Department staged a militarized “no-knock” raid on a residence at 7815 Harding Street. The raid became infamously known as the Harding Street Raid. When the police gunfire ended, all the occupants in the…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Prosecutors in Texas have a long history of suppressing what is known as “Brady material” to secure criminal convictions. This kind of prosecutorial misconduct is deliberate and calculated to either shore up or reinforce the prosecutorial narrative in a particular…
The core purpose of a criminal sentence is to hold a wrongdoer accountable for their unlawful actions. Underlying purposes of sentencing can be deterrence and rehabilitation.
Criminal sentencing is most often determined by legislatively mandated ranges for particular offenses, or…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom located at Broadway and West 165th Street in New York City. The assassination took place at 3:00 p.m. before Malcolm could deliver his speech to the Organization of…