Welfare Checks That End in Violence: Why Is Care Routed Through Force? | Rita Williams
Key Points Scale Between 2019 and 2021, at least 178 people were killed by police responding to mental health crises,…
Rita Williams
Rita Williams is a Michigan-based judicial oversight analyst and founder of Clutch Justice, an investigative platform focused on court system accountability, sentencing integrity, and SCAO policy. Her work examines how courts, policies, and administrative systems operate in practice, with a focus on where process breaks down and harm is created. Drawing on lived experience and systems-level analysis, she writes to make legal structures more readable, expose institutional gaps, and advocate for reforms grounded in both evidence and human impact. Rita’s writing bridges legal analysis, institutional critique, and public education, with a consistent focus on accountability without losing sight of the people most affected by the justice system.
Michigan ADM 2019-40 and the In-Person Gap: When Remote Justice Creates Uneven Access
Key Points The Proposal ADM File No. 2019-40 would allow judicial officers to preside remotely subject to geographic limits, continuous…
Michigan Contractor Fraud Cases Are Breaking in Predictable Ways. Here’s Where.
Consumer Fraud Most contractor fraud cases do not collapse because the facts are absent. They collapse because the record does…
The Centralia Files, Part II: When Fixing the Ground Costs More Than Leaving It | Rita Williams
The Centralia Files Part II | View full series The fire did not force the choice. The accounting did. What…
Washington State Penitentiary Under Scrutiny After Reports of Injured Prisoner in Solitary Confinement
? Active Investigation — Records Pending. Clutch Justice has filed a formal public records request with the Washington Department of…
Eaton County Drain Commissioner Donor Ties Raise Legal Fee Questions
Direct Answer Richard Wagner does not personally absorb the cost when he hires outside lawyers for drain work. Under Michigan’s…
Institutional Accountability as a Service: How Clutch Justice Turns Pattern Recognition Into Power
Institutional Accountability By Rita Williams ? Clutch Justice ? March 2026 Key Takeaways Documenting institutional misconduct in real time produces…
The State Does Not Represent You | Prosecutorial Discretion and Victim Rights | Clutch Justice
Prosecutorial Accountability The State Does Not Represent You How the myth of victim-centered prosecution hides a system built entirely around…
The Tylenol Murders Reexamined: Johnson & Johnson, Prior Warnings, and the PR Narrative
Rita Ruins Everything The Tylenol Murders The PR Crime That Stayed Solved The Tylenol Murders, Johnson & Johnson, and how…
Biometric Surveillance in Michigan Jails and Prisons: The Privacy Ethics Problem No One Is Talking About
Key Points Technology Michigan correctional facilities already use fingerprint databases, facial recognition, iris scanning, voice identification, and gait analysis. These…
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