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Category: Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform
In 2017, the Equal Justice Initiative issued a report, “Lynching in America: Confronting The Legacy of Racial Terror,” that shows the state of Georgia had 589 lynchings from 1877 to 1950—second only to Mississippi’s 654 lynchings during the same period.…
Category: bail reform | Criminal Justice Reform
Gradually, inevitably, the COVID 19 virus is working its way through the Texas jail and prison systems. There are roughly 7,500 to 10,000 inmates in the Harris County Jail.
Throughout Texas’ county jails, nearly 70 percent of people detained in…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
Each year worldwide, some 30 million people spend time in a prison or some other form of detention. Eleven million people are incarcerated around the world on any given day. The World Health Organization estimates that one in five of…
Category: Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform
In response to the growing threat of COVID-19, some responsible public officials, activists, and experts in Harris County have demanded that non-dangerous “accused” people in the local jail be released. These are mostly individuals who have been charged but not…
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…
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