Tag: mass incarceration
Waiting for Tennessee to Reform Its Felony Murder Rule
The trajectory of most proposed changes to Tennessee’s criminal-legal system is for all of ...
TN Prisons Don’t Expedite Early Release. What If It’s an Emergency?
Douglas Richmond’s case for early release from prison is relatively straightforward. He’s served six ...
Years Pass in a County Jail, Asking for Public Defenders Who Never Answer
In the three years and two months that Pareshkumer Desai has been detained pretrial, ...
In Final Meeting, GA Prisons Senate Committee Votes for the Status Quo
Brought into existence to tell us whether Georgia’s notoriously unsafe prison system is unsafe, ...
After Biden Clemency Action for Drug Convictions, Most People Want More
As President Joe Biden announces a new round of pardons and commutations—including several for ...
Georgia’s Jails Are Less Violent Than Its Prisons. That Comes at Other Costs.
Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its ...
Advocates, Lawmakers Urge Biden to Expand Cannabis Clemency Now
On November 20, advocates, formerly incarcerated people, their families and congressmembers gathered at the ...
How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended
In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the ...
Georgia Probation Is an Alternative to Something, But Not Jail
[Part 1 and Part 2 of this series were published in October] Just about ...
Enough With the Sex Offender Registry
Law enforcement has done a good job of portraying recidivism as a kind of ...
