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2025 is ending with a justice system altered in ways we have not seen in more than a decade. Some of those changes move us toward fairness, accountability and real public safety. Others drag the nation backward into the failed punishment-first playbook that has never delivered safety, only overcrowded jails, destabilized communities and political theater.
Today, I’m going to talk about something few are brave enough to say out loud: some mothers with severe, untreated Borderline…
Another day, another Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission complaint, it seems. And once again, it’s video footage dragging the truth into…
If your inbox looks anything like mine, you know exactly what I’m about to say:People are fed up with the courts, but…
There’s a special kind of frustration that comes with trauma brain fog. You sit down, ready to work, ready to…
When the world has treated your life like it’s disposable, one of the most revolutionary things you can do is…
I have had the unsettling but unique experience of watching one man’s profound mental illness ripple through an entire community….
When Taylor District Court Judge Joseph Slaven decided to repeatedly flip off a courthouse camera (nine times, to be exact)…
When actress Lori Loughlin — known by many as “Aunt Becky” from Full House — was cast again after serving…
In America, we like to believe that truth always wins. That, if a person is proven innocent, they walk free.
But, in the real world of the U.S. justice system, innocence is not enough.
