Delayed and incomplete, but still a triumph. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] First, a quick note about impeachment: More than 600 protests will be taking place around the country this evening. The goal is to voice outrage at President Trump’s behavior and show support for impeaching him. My colleague Michelle Goldberg writes about the planned events in her […]
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Freed from prison nine years ago, Brandon Flood is new secretary of Pa.’s pardon board | Will Bunch | The Philadelphia Inquirer
This column will probably come as something of a shock to all the people in Harrisburg who only know Brandon Flood – a bow-tied, bespectacled policy wonk with sartorial flair – as the persona that he laughingly calls “Urkel Brandon,” in a homage to one of TV’s most famous nerds. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Flood, now 36, […]
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‘I Got Tired of Hunting Black and Hispanic People’ | The New York Times
Multiple police officers in Brooklyn say they were told by a commander that white and Asian people should be left alone.
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Incarcerated People Can Do More than Beat Harvard in a Debate | Rolling Stone
“College Behind Bars,” a new PBS documentary executive-produced by Ken Burns, shines a light on a program that every major university in America should be sponsoring
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Court Stops Execution of Rodney Reed in Texas After Outcry | The New York Times
Mr. Reed had been scheduled to die on Wednesday. Celebrities, politicians and the state’s parole board had all argued for a reprieve.
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An effort to stop overnight jail releases in California is rejected by Gov. Newsom | Los Angeles Times
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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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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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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