Last week, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in Falcon v. State that juveniles not convicted of murder may not be sentenced to life in prison, and that even those convicted of murder may not be sentenced to life without parole, citing a U.S. Supreme Court precedent [...]
As you read this missive please keep in mind that there is never one single rainmaker. A rainmaker is reflective of a philosophy. He, she, or we work to create policy. This "truth" is not confined within a city, or a state; nor is it restricted within [...]
BY NOW MANY have read and been moved by the extraordinary mea culpa published in the Shreveport Times by a man named Marty Stroud III, who more than 30 years ago sent Glenn Ford to die for a crime he did not commit. “How wrong [...]
3 Arrested at Die-In at Rahm Emanuel’s Office By Yana Kunichoff | Originally Published at In These Times. March 24, 2015 Protesters demand reforms to alleged abuses in Chicago’s criminal justice system, including a discriminatory “stop-and-frisk” program and secret interrogation site. A chaotic scene played out on [...]
By: Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. | March 23, 2015 | Image Credit; IBN Live. When I read an article (via Facebook) about a 23-year-old man being charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl, after being caught by the child’s mother engaging in [...]
I know a high school senior who’s so worried about whether she’ll be accepted at the college of her choice she can’t sleep. The parent of another senior tells me he stands at the mailbox for an hour every day waiting for a hoped-for acceptance letter [...]
Journalists, pundits and authors love to claim how "hard" it is for them to write certain stories. Sometimes this is just a cheap emotional trick to draw in the reader, other times it is a sincere way of acknowledging just how hard it is to [...]
By Harold Jordan | Originally Published at American Civil Liberties [ACLU] of Pennsylvania. March 20, 2015 1:00 PM | Photographic Credit; Officer Sgt. Mark Spain joins students in the lunch room during the day at the Watervliet, N.Y. Elementary School (Skip Dickstein/Times Union) As talk of law [...]
By Rebecca Carroll | Originally Published at The Guardian and Observer.
