SACRAMENTO — Ten years ago, Mitrice Richardson was released from the Los Angeles County sheriff’s Malibu/Lost Hills Station just after midnight, left to find her way home through a remote area, alone and on foot, with no money or phone. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] When her body was located 11 months later, questions were raised about why […]
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Illinois is expunging marijuana convictions from nearly 800,000 criminal records | CNN
Ryan Prior, CNN Yarygin, serazetdinov/iStock. Featured Image [dropcap]C[/dropcap]NN If you’ve been arrested for weed in Illinois, you can breathe a sigh of relief. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker just signed HB 1438 this week, which makes cannabis legal in the state for individuals 21 and over, along with sweeping criminal criminal justice reforms designed […]
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New Criminal Justice Film Series from The Marshall Project Highlights Chicago Witnesses to System’s Injustices | Chicago Defender
By Ariel Parrella-Aureli, Chicago Defender Harold Washington Library Center’s Cindy Pritzker Auditorium was a full house at the opening screening of a new local series focusing on injustices in the criminal justice system. On Sept. 12, The Marshall Project released 15 video testimonies of Chicago voices affected by the justice system, “We Are Witnesses: Chicago,” is […]
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California assembly votes to ban private, for-profit prisons | NBC News
The bill would ban new contracts with private prison facilities in California starting next year, and would phase out their use entirely by 2028.
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A Prison Lifer Comes Home | The Atlantic
Imprisoned for decades for a crime he committed as a juvenile, “Red Dog” Fennell was released as an old man into a baffling world.
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Is Life Retroactive? | Slate
He was sentenced to life without parole at 17. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court weighs setting him free.
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White women were colonisers too. To move forward, we have to stop letting them off the hook | The Guardian
We will never understand the impact of colonial oppression if we underestimate white women’s role in it, writes Ruby Hamad
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Alabama man who served 36 years of a life sentence for stealing $50 to be freed | The Guardian
Alvin Kennard was imprisoned in 1983 with a disproportionately harsh sentence under the ‘three strikes law’
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Thirty years later, Yusuf Hawkins’ murder still shocks in a changed Brooklyn | The City
Clifford Michel, The City, The City A memorial for Yusuf Hawkins in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Aug. 22, 2019. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY. Featured Image [dropcap]Until[/dropcap] this week, Mohamed Kootabeda never heard the name Yusuf Hawkins. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Kootabeda was shocked to learn the story of the African-American 16-year-old who was set upon by a mob of […]
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Four Black Men Were Freed From Death Row. Republicans Put Them Back. | The New York Times
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear a case next week that’s a matter of life or death for some inmates.
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