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Jackie Solomon
May 27, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
How HB 459 will update Maryland’s outdated juvenile legal system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, 20225 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...
Devin Iorio
May 24, 20223 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...
Siena Richardson
Apr 26, 20222 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...
W. Connor Smith
Apr 20, 20223 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...
Bennett Nuss
Apr 12, 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...
Samuel Disario
Apr 6, 20222 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...
Carol Marand
Apr 5, 20223 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...
Vicky Cheng
Mar 14, 20224 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...
Kayla Ollendorff
Mar 14, 20223 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...
Felicia Sych
Mar 1, 20222 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...
Danielle Davis
Feb 26, 20223 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...
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