Speakers for the Living: The Essential Role of Mitigation Specialists in Justice
Everything about America’s adversarial criminal justice system treats defendants as bad people who deserve maximum punishment. It is a false…
Navigating Michigan DOC Visitor Registrations: Tips to Beat the Paperwork
As if incarceration of a family member wasn’t hard enough, the Michigan DOC finds ways to make things harder for…
Barry County Circuit Court Judge Michael Schipper Hiding Damning Court Records
On March 2nd, after a complete nightmare of trying to get transcripts for People v. Williams into his lawyer’s hands,…
Medical Malpractice in the Michigan Department of Corrections
Editor’s Note This post predates the suicide at Egeler due to jump hazards that they never fixed. My thoughts are…
What Defendants and Attorneys Should Know About Sentencing Risk in Barry County Circuit Court
Barry County Circuit Court has drawn attention following repeated appellate remands, upward sentencing departures beyond advisory guidelines, and documented concerns…
Barry County’s 99.9% Conviction Rate Isn’t a Success Story
How does Barry County, Michigan achieve a near-perfect criminal conviction rate? The answer has less to do with the strength…
Rita Williams | The Classical School of Criminological Theory
Fresh Ideas Series The Classical School of criminology argues that law must achieve balance between fairness and punishment — that…
Michigan State Police Wayland Post Exposed: The Hidden Scandal of Misconduct Cover-Ups
A few weeks ago, I submitted a FOIA Request to understand where a turn-in arrangement went wrong. Except there’s one…
Crowdsourcing Justice: How “The New Irregulars” Are Exposing Systemic Corruption
Fresh Ideas Series When Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes, the great detective didn’t work alone. He had the Baker…
The Case for Three Strikes Law Reform: Rethinking Mandatory Sentencing | Rita Williams
Fresh Ideas Series In 2021, while completing master’s coursework in Criminal Justice at Purdue University Global, I examined the rise…
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