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  1. Nov 2024
    1. The criminal-legal system, Weaver has written, “trains people for adistinctive and lesser kind of citizenship.”[16]
  2. Jul 2024
    1. Total casesadjudicatedConvicted Not convictedTotal Guilty plea Bench/jury trial Total Bench/jury trial DismissedAll offenses 71,126 92.6% 90.9% 1.7% 7.4% 0.3% 7.1%

      In fiscal year 2020, there were 71k cases in U.S. district court. Of those, 92.6% were convicted: 90.9% by guilty plea and 1.7% by bench/jury trial. 7.4% were not convicted, 0.3% by bench/jury trial and 7.1% dismissed.

    1. "The Alford Plea", Radiolab, Jun 28, 2024

      In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists, Brown found himself contemplating a path to freedom that involved a paradoxical plea deal—one that peels back the curtain on the criminal justice system and reveals it doesn’t work the way we think it does.

  3. Nov 2022
  4. Mar 2022
    1. Welcome To 3D Pools and Landscape, the Best Pool Builder in the Katy´s and Houston Area

      I wasnt able to find anything in this article that can relate to my group project with the topic bail reform since this article is about a pool design and landscaping service.

  5. Feb 2022
    1. When an appraiser lowballs the value of a home simply because a Black family owns it, you are effectively committing grand larceny. You are robbing people of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars. And it happens all the time.

      If the size and quality and everything else about a home is the same as another home, but the only difference is that its in a black neighborhood feels way too close to redlining, which the fair housing act makes illegal

  6. Nov 2021
    1. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/ahmaud-arbery-verdict-guilty/620817/

      A good reminder that justice was only reached because of national outrage and not because our system really works.

    2. had it been up to the folks in charge in Glynn County, the jury never would have seen that evidence. To say the system worked in this case is like saying your car made it home—after your entire family had to get out and push it miles down a dirt road.

      Recall that it took 70 days for an arrest in this case.

  7. Sep 2021
    1. Campbell’s lived experience as a native Black Bostonian showed her firsthand how uneven and oppressive the school-to-prison pipeline can be. Her late twin brother, Andre, was a victim of the systems she works to rebuild.

      Campbell should have won! She is earnest and has a clear vision for what Boston can be to address these systemic issues.

  8. Nov 2020
    1. will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Ordinance
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