Breann BellMay 25, 20223 minHow HB 459 will update Maryland’s outdated juvenile legal systemMaryland has been making changes to its juvenile legislation, and the state most recently passed the Juvenile Restoration Act (JRA),...
Caitlyn GreeneMay 25, 20225 minThe 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 IorioMay 24, 20223 minState-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 RichardsonApr 26, 20222 minThe high cost of parenting while incarceratedThe moment a parent comes in contact with the criminal legal system, their entire family is impacted. As a result of an arrest alone, a...
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