Michigan DOC Corrections Officer Evades Accountability for Destruction of Property, Harassing Neighbors
Note: Clutch made a massive breakthrough in this story. Read it here. In Ionia Township, Michigan, a local resident has…
Michigan Courts Are Blocking Public Access—Dr. Samantha Hallman Is Challenging That in Court
Michigan courts say proceedings are public. Then they quietly decide whether you’re allowed to actually see them. That contradiction is…
New York Releasing Incarcerated Individuals Early, Cites Staffing Shortage
Corrections Policy & Mass Incarceration New York’s prison system began releasing people early in April 2025 because it could not…
Can Sentencing Be Predicted? How Data and AI Are Already Changing Criminal Justice
Predictive sentencing sounds clinical, efficient, maybe even neutral. But once punishment starts leaning on probability models, the court is no…
Why Michigan Courts Are Falling Behind on AI—and Why That Needs to Change
Courts are already hard enough to see through. Add artificial intelligence without public guardrails, and opacity starts looking like innovation….
Court of Appeals Intervenes—But Barry County Judge Defies Sentencing Law Again
Appellate intervention is supposed to mean correction. In Barry County, it keeps looking more like a suggestion the trial court…
Second Chances Mean Nothing Without First Chances
Tomorrow is April 1st, the kickoff to Second Chance Month. It is worth celebrating, but beneath the hopeful language lies…
When Your Spouse Is Incarcerated: How Prison Quietly Destroys Marriages
When your spouse goes to prison, the sentence doesn’t stay with one person. It moves into the house, the budget,…
Michigan’s Judicial Accountability Problem: Secrecy, Misconduct, and a System That Protects Itself
Judicial Accountability Michigan’s judicial oversight body operates almost entirely in secret by constitutional design. In 2023 it received 542 grievances…
America Is Obsessed With Punishment—and It’s Making Us Less Safe
Key Points The Data Approximately two in five people in U.S. jails and prisons have a history of mental illness…
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