criminal injustice

California May Restore Voting Rights to Over 55,000 People With Felony Records

A ballot measure in California, Proposition 17, would restore voting rights to all residents after they leave prison on parole.…

October 19, 2020

Our Movement Is Strongest When We Aim High—And Work in Current Reality

Criminal justice reform has made significant advances during my time in the movement. But the continuing influence of the carceral…

October 19, 2020

Weirdly, Amy Coney Barrett’s Police-Accountability Record May Be Better Than RBG’s

On September 25, Amy Coney Barrett, a staunchly conservative judge for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was named as…

October 15, 2020

Michigan’s New Marijuana-Conviction Expungement Law: Pros and Cons

On October 12, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed into law a series of criminal justice reform bills. Among these…

October 14, 2020

Racial Justice and the Death Penalty at Stake in Ohio Prosecutor Election

After choosing in 2017 not to reindict a University of Cincinnati campus police officer for the fatal shooting of a…

October 13, 2020

Is the UN Complicit in Philippines’ Lethal Drug War?

At the start of the summer, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) announced it had found thousands, and potentially…

October 8, 2020

Breonna Taylor Travesty Must Renew Focus on the Racist Drug War

The grand jury’s decision in the Breonna Taylor case is infuriating. It was also, perhaps, inevitable. While scholars will spend…

September 30, 2020

Why Amy Coney Barrett Is the Right Choice for None of America

Kristen Clarke, the executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, wrote a CNN opinion column decrying…

September 29, 2020

Drug Policy Reform in Missouri: City-Level Progress, Strong Headwinds

A Missouri mayor recently announced a plan to pardon people with marijuana and psilocybin convictions. His reform follows other city-level…

September 24, 2020

Why Historic House Marijuana Legalization Vote Has Been Pushed Back

An historic House of Representatives vote on a federal marijuana legalization bill, orginally slated for this month, has been pushed…

September 23, 2020