Ohio Residents Push Constitutional Amendment to Block Large Data Centers Statewide
News · Ohio Eight days. That’s all it took for a handful of Adams and Brown county residents to gather…
Special Report: Michigan Built a $150M Court Tech System. The Legislature Won’t Fund the Upkeep.
Courts & Technology · Judicial Infrastructure Key Takeaways 260 of Michigan’s 302 trial courts are now live on the JIS…
Michigan Legal News Roundup: Remote Judges, MiFILE Control, and Voter Data Fight
Michigan Legal Roundup Week of March 16–20, 2026 This week’s developments share a common thread: Michigan’s legal institutions are drawing…
Michigan Trial Court Funding Reform: Who Controls the Courts When the Money Moves?
Michigan’s Trial Court Funding Concept Paper proposes to restructure how trial courts are funded by reducing dependence on local appropriations…
Just Because a Judge Held a Sentencing Doesn’t Mean It Was Right | Rita Williams
A sentencing that occurred is not the same as a sentencing that was lawful. Across Michigan courtrooms, people are sentenced…
Who Is Rita Williams? Michigan Judicial Oversight and the Clutch Justice Project
Rita Williams is an investigative journalist, systems analyst, and doctoral candidate focused on Michigan courts, judicial oversight, and institutional accountability…
Whole Pie 2026: Why Local Courts Drive the 96.5% Conviction Machine
The national conversation about mass incarceration focuses on prisons. The Prison Policy Initiative’s Whole Pie 2026 report shows why that…
The Centralia Files, Part I: The Fire That Never Became an Emergency | Rita Williams
How a subsurface coal fire spent two decades not quite becoming anyone’s problem The Prologue to this series established the…
The Operation Drive Paradox: Michigan Courts Fund License Restoration While Fines Still Drive Suspensions
Michigan courts just granted $1 million to help residents restore suspended driver’s licenses. The same court system operates funding structures…
Beccaria and the Betrayal of Classical Theory: What a 260-Year-Old Framework Reveals About Modern Sentencing Failures
In 1764, Cesare Beccaria argued that punishment exceeding what is necessary to deter crime is not justice but cruelty expressed…
You must be logged in to post a comment.