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The political headline is obvious. The systems question is harder: what happens when thousands of people and families get a…
Michigan’s sentencing guidelines are supposed to create structure. The harder question is who is interpreting that structure, who is teaching…
Prosecutors are measured like system expanders, then everyone acts surprised when they keep expanding the system. The published piece gets…
Sentencing errors don’t always show up as dramatic mistakes. Sometimes they show up as decisions that don’t hold together under…
The systems we build don’t come out of nowhere. They reflect what we’ve already normalized. Mass incarceration is often discussed…
When the prosecution controls both the courtroom narrative and the public narrative, the line between advocacy and influence starts to…
When the same system that incarcerates people depends on them to respond to public emergencies, the question isn’t just labor….
When drugs enter correctional facilities through the people tasked with controlling them, the issue isn’t contraband. It’s structural failure. Recent…
Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman, Cook County, Illinois, has been reassigned after sharing a racist meme depicting a black toddler wearing a…
Corrections Oversight When deaths in custody, staff misconduct allegations, retaliatory behavior, and footage-access barriers start clustering around the same institution,…
