Tag: criminal injustice
New York Prisons Punished 1,600 People for False Drug Test Results
On January 5, New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang released a report that ...
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Issues Far-Reaching Decarceration Plan
On the campaign trail for Manhattan district attorney in 2021, Alvin Bragg was seen ...
The Lack of Prosecutor Accountability Behind Trucker’s 110-Year Sentence
By now, much of the world has heard of Kayla Wildeman, the deputy prosecutor ...
New Orleans Result Could Increase Reformers’ Focus on Sheriff Elections
Since 2015, both Big Philanthropy funders and progressive grassroots activists have targeted local district ...
The NYPD Operates With Near-Impunity, Finds NYCLU Report
The New York City Police Department ignored the disciplinary recommendations of its oversight board ...
How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People
On a Saturday night two years ago, Stann Fransisco was driving back home to ...
The Influential HOPE Probation Program Is Badly Misnamed
Last month, a woman won $7 million in a federal court in Hawaii against ...
The Ways We “Monsterize” Drug Use, Pain and People
[This article is an adapted excerpt from On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters ...
The Right Uses Wisconsin Parade Tragedy to Attack Bail Reform
After an SUV ploughed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21, ...
Why the ACLU Is Taking On Wyoming’s Pretrial “24/7 Sobriety” Program
Criminologists and, increasingly, local court systems love the idea of “swift, certain and fair” ...
