More than a year after the actor said he was the victim of a hate crime, Chicago’s special prosecutor wants him back in court to face new felony disorderly conduct charges.
More than 50 years after the icon was gunned down, and on the heels of a new Netflix docuseries, the Innocence Project hopes to free a man it says was wrongly convicted.
Executive Producer Brie Miranda Bryant: “It shouldn’t really be through a documentary, it should be through the legal system that these things are handled.”
Fair and Just Prosecution urges those at the “front door” of the justice system to witness the decay and overcrowding plaguing the nation’s correctional facilities.
These fines, which disproportionally impact communities of color, burden people with massive debt that affects their ability to successfully reenter society.
The Representative from Massachusetts introduces legislation that calls for a “decarceration-focused” system that is “smaller, safer, less punitive and more humane.”
Lori Landry, the first Black woman elected to Louisiana’s 16th Judicial District, is being called unfit to judge for saying that Black people are unfairly treated in the legal system. But her supporters aren’t having it.
A new study from the Reflective Democracy Campaign showed that while White men still dominate as elected prosecutors, women of all races and men of color are winning at higher rates when they compete for the same seats.
