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How HB 459 will update Maryland’s outdated juvenile legal system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),...
Breann Bell
May 24, 20223 min read
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...
Caitlyn Greene
May 24, 20225 min read
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...
Devin Iorio
May 23, 20223 min read
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...
Siena Richardson
Apr 26, 20222 min read
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...
W. Connor Smith
Apr 20, 20223 min read
Legal tracking: Are no knock warrants declining in use?
On Feb. 2, 2022, Minneapolis police executed a no-knock raid on Amir Locke’s apartment as part of a homicide investigation in neighboring...
Bennett Nuss
Apr 12, 20223 min read
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...
Samuel Disario
Apr 6, 20222 min read
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...
Carol Marand
Apr 5, 20223 min read
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...
Vicky Cheng
Mar 14, 20224 min read
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...
Kayla Ollendorff
Mar 14, 20223 min read
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...
Felicia Sych
Mar 1, 20222 min read
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...
Danielle Davis
Feb 25, 20223 min read
Legal tracking: Concepcion v. United States
The Supreme Court heard oral argument this term in a case that could substantively change how low-risk prisoners apply for resentencing...
Bennett Nuss
Feb 18, 20224 min read
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...
Samuel Disario
Feb 1, 20223 min read
Body-worn cameras: Substantive, distractive or both?
Police Body-Worn Cameras (PBCs) are implemented with various policy goals, but most prominently, they are used to reduce police...
Kevin Botros
Jan 21, 20222 min read
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