Cash Bail Reform in Michigan: What Actually Applies and What Doesn’t
Key Points Michigan Has Not Reformed Michigan has not eliminated cash bail and has no statewide reform law limiting it….
Probation and “Wait Mode”: How Supervision Quietly Shrinks Your Life and How to Survive
Supervision, Psychology & Criminal Justice Reform Quick Answer Probation often creates a psychological “wait mode” — a chronic state of…
When Evidence Sits, Exposure Continues: Detroit’s Rape Kit Backlog and the Accountability Gap
Criminal Justice & Institutional Accountability More than 11,000 rape kits sat untested in Detroit for up to twenty-five years. The…
The Daniel Ellsberg Act: Tlaib’s Push to Stop Using the Espionage Act Against Truth-Tellers
Key Points The Bill Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act on March 12,…
The “Twinkie Defense” Explained: The Dan White Trial, Diet, and the Science of Food and Behavior
Key Points The Myth The “Twinkie Defense” never argued that junk food caused two murders. Dan White’s attorneys used his…
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,…
The New Face of Wrongful Arrest
Facial recognition systems operate by analyzing the geometric features of a face and comparing them against stored images in databases such as driver’s license records, mugshot repositories, or other government and commercial image collections.
The output is not a single identification. It is typically a ranked list of candidates based on similarity scores.
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…
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