Influence of childhood trauma on perpetrators of mass shootings
In yet another mass shooting, a teenage gunman took the lives of 13 individuals at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York on May 14,...
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Ben Crawford
- Jun 3
- 3 min
Latent fingerprint identification: A lack of scientific process
Fingerprint analysis was first proposed for criminal identification in the 19th century and has since become an evidentiary staple of...
Lucy Delves
- Jun 3
- 3 min
Pregnant in prison? What’s next for you? Abortion access for the incarcerated
There are over 200,000 women currently incarcerated in the United States. Thousands of these women are pregnant. Many persons become...
Brianna Long
- Jun 1
- 4 min
A pattern of bias in PATTERN
The First Step Act, implemented on Dec. 21, 2018, required the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “develop a risk needs assessment system to...
Arielle Aboulafia
- Jun 1
- 4 min
Greenlighting non-police alternatives to traffic enforcement and road safety
Though traditional notions of public safety have long regarded law enforcement as the only effective means of keeping communities safe,...
Jackie Solomon
- May 27
- 3 min
Visitation: Can it do more for juvenile offenders?
According to Haley Walker’s article, School-to-Prison Pipeline, juvenile offenders are “ten times more likely” than the rest of the...
Nikko Respeto
- May 27
- 3 min
Interstate prohibition of sports gambling: The Wire Act must go
Sports gambling is a market that has not always been legal, but that has not stopped sports bettors from placing bets on sporting events...
Adam K. Roberts
- May 26
- 4 min
The guardians of our legal system unchecked
Crime is often a local issue, one handled by the community in which it occurs. Laws are mostly enforced by local or state police, and...
Breann Bell
- May 25
- 3 min
How HB 459 will update Maryland’s outdated juvenile legal system
Maryland has been making changes to its juvenile legislation, and the state most recently passed the Juvenile Restoration Act (JRA),...
Caitlyn Greene
- May 25
- 5 min
The Bureau of Prison’s systematically unfair treatment of D.C. Code offenders
On Feb. 3, 2022, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia filed Blades v. Garland in the U.S. District Court for the...
Devin Iorio
- May 24
- 3 min
State-sanctioned secrecy in capital punishment
On Oct. 28, 2021 after being injected with the first of a series of lethal injection drugs, John Marion Grant began to violently...
Siena Richardson
- Apr 26
- 2 min
The high cost of parenting while incarcerated
The moment a parent comes in contact with the criminal legal system, their entire family is impacted. As a result of an arrest alone, a...
W. Connor Smith
- Apr 20
- 3 min
Locked up and left to die: Addiction in America’s prisons
Mass incarceration is an institution as American as apple pie. In 2019, roughly 2.1 million people were incarcerated in the United...
Samuel Disario
- Apr 6
- 2 min
How to ensure every trans person has adequate access to trans-affirming care while incarcerated
On Aug. 16, 2016, Stacy Lorraine Naber, a transgender woman, was found dead in her cell in a mens prison facility at Dade Correctional...
Carol Marand
- Apr 5
- 3 min
Leveraging discretion: Prosecutors’ role in justice reforms
The growing movement for policing reforms reached a pivotal moment in 2020, following the death of George Floyd. That summer saw a push...
Vicky Cheng
- Mar 14
- 4 min
Forgotten by their keepers: Ensuring Eighth Amendment protections during COVID-19
For more than a year now, correctional staff in most states have been eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. They are prioritized given the...
Kayla Ollendorff
- Mar 14
- 3 min
D.C. jail conditions: Cruel and unusual punishment?
The pandemic has ravaged the criminal legal system, and COVID-19 has only aggravated the poor conditions within jails and prisons...
Felicia Sych
- Mar 1
- 2 min
Why are airline passengers flying off the handle?
As the world continues to open due to the COVID-19 vaccine, many people are taking to the skies to travel and regain some sense of...
Danielle Davis
- Feb 26
- 3 min
Rebranding the school to prison pipeline: From classroom to Zoom room
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, students across the country adapted to online, distance learning—a reality that...
Samuel Disario
- Feb 1
- 3 min
Why queer persons disproportionately experience police violence, how we can fix it
Kayla Moore, a transgender woman, was experiencing a paranoid schizophrenic mental health crisis. Instead of receiving care, she was...