Siena RichardsonDec 28, 20203 min readGender & IncarcerationIncarceration rates for women in the United States have grown at twice the rate of men in recent decades. Perhaps unsurprisingly, rates...
Jack TholeDec 28, 20205 min readAs States Legalize, the Struggle to Clear Marijuana Convictions ContinuesOn June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon addressed the nation in what would become known as the War on Drugs Speech. Labeling drug abuse...
Kayla OllendorffDec 28, 20203 min readCompassionate Releases During COVID-19 for High-Risk IndividualsIn July, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a research letter asserting that inmates are five and a half times...
Annemarie GregoireDec 28, 20203 min readProsecutorial Discretion and its Impact on Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice SystemThe disproportionate impact of mass incarceration on black communities has been widely recognized for years. Various causes of racial...
Kieya SimpsonDec 28, 20204 min read“Your Eyes are Playing Tricks on You”: Eyewitness Identification ReformOtis Boone insisted that he was innocent after being accused of two robberies in 2011. He was nineteen at the time, and two separate...