Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair’s Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison: "If my artwork is able to give people an understanding of what an individual goes through while in prison -- it definitely means a lot."
More people are serving life sentences without parole in Pennsylvania than almost anywhere else in America. An increasingly vocal movement is trying to change that.
Timothy James Young was convicted of murder in Tulare on the word of a police informant. But there are mountains of evidence demonstrating his innocence.
The potential for conviction and actually winning a jury verdict are two very different things — particularly against the notoriously combative and slippery former president. To convict, Mr. Smith will have to overcome four significant hurdles.
Nothing in the U.S. Constitution or federal law dictates that federal criminal cases get priority over state cases, or that prosecutions proceed in the order in which indictments are issued.
The blunt fact about the cash bail system in the US is that it creates a two-tier system of “justice” in which the presumption of innocence is denied to people who have not been convicted of anything but the “crime” of being poor.
The HALT Act was passed to end long-term solitary confinement. Enforcing it is a whole new struggle.
Long-term research from Northwestern University finds that rates of firearm injury or death are higher for juvenile detainees than for the general population and those from similar demographic backgrounds.
“The harsh reality is that, despite the possibility that a rich and powerful man may now be in for his just desserts, our criminal legal system is daily marked by widespread unfairness and a stark racial bias.”
When we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Gideon ruling this year — recognizing the right to counsel conferred by Gideon’s persistence and Justice Hugo Black’s resolve — we are erasing a far longer and richer legacy: the history of the women who invented the idea of the public defender.
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