Book Review: Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, by Emily Bazelon
“Numbingly normal.” It’s how Emily Bazelon describes the outcome in Connick v. Thompson, a 2011 Supreme Court case that shielded prosecutors’ offices from liability for Brady violations resulting from the offices’ failure to train their attorneys. This immunity from...
Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid
Guest post by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler. Justine is the Media Coordinator for No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, a humanitarian organization in Southern Arizona. On Friday, March 4th, four volunteers with No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid group based out of Tucson,...
Barbaric Beyond Bans: How the First Step Act’s Shackling Provision Fails to Protect Women
In his recent State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump touted the success of recent criminal justice reform legislation. Specifically, he was talking about the First Step Act, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support before Trump signed it into law....
Administrative Remedy or Litigation? Contemplating the PLRA’s Availability Exception after Townsend v. Murphy
Guest Post by Julius Mitchell For generations, the incarcerated have utilized prison strikes to protest everything from harsh sentencing to restrictive parole requirements to poor prison conditions. In August and September 2018, organizers launched one of the largest...
Baltimore after Freddie Gray
For the city of Baltimore, it’s been three long years since Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody was declared a homicide by Baltimore’s state attorney, Marilyn Mosby. After an internal investigation that included reviewing of police tape, the autopsy report,...
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