Siena Richardson
Gender & Incarceration
Incarceration rates for women in the United States have grown at twice the rate of men in recent decades. Perhaps unsurprisingly, rates...
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Jack Thole
- Dec 28, 2020
- 5 min
As States Legalize, the Struggle to Clear Marijuana Convictions Continues
On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon addressed the nation in what would become known as the War on Drugs Speech. Labeling drug abuse...
Kayla Ollendorff
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
Compassionate Releases During COVID-19 for High-Risk Individuals
In July, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a research letter asserting that inmates are five and a half times...
Annemarie Gregoire
- Dec 28, 2020
- 3 min
Prosecutorial Discretion and its Impact on Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System
The disproportionate impact of mass incarceration on black communities has been widely recognized for years. Various causes of racial...
Kieya Simpson
- Dec 28, 2020
- 4 min
“Your Eyes are Playing Tricks on You”: Eyewitness Identification Reform
Otis Boone insisted that he was innocent after being accused of two robberies in 2011. He was nineteen at the time, and two separate...
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