Is America’s justice system racist, rotten to the core, and in desperate need of reform? Or does stricter sentencing and ...
In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...
In 1987, Ben Spencer, a young black man from Dallas, Texas was convicted in the killing of a white businessman. He was sentenced to life in prison by an all-white jury. There was no physical evidence ...
District Attorney Larry Krasner has never been one to temper his words. When he first campaigned to be the city’s top ...
The age of politicized prosecutions is upon us. No longer such a thing as guilty or not guilty based on the law and the facts. The federal prosecutions of Donald Trump over Jan. 6 and the Mar-a-Lago ...
Washington, D.C. — Today, Center for American Progress, along with 13 prominent national organizations representing the political left and right, released a sweeping set of shared principles for ...
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. BRITTANY. WELL, THAT’S RIGHT. AND THIS IS AT LEAST THE THIRD TIME THAT A WORK STOPPAGE IN THE PAST TWO DECADES HAS UPENDED THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL SYSTEM. AND ONE FORMER ...
Bryan Stevenson, the prominent lawyer and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has blazed a trail representing the poor, wrongly convicted and those on death row. Geoff Bennett sat down ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who violently stormed the Capitol four ...
When survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein step forward, they do more than recount their past. They disrupt power. Their testimonies threaten to unravel circles of influence that thrived ...
The age of politicized prosecutions is upon us. No longer such a thing as guilty or not guilty based on the law and the facts. The federal prosecutions of Donald Trump over Jan. 6 and the Mar-a-Lago ...