Family court is supposed to safeguard children. When power, bias, and manipulation take hold, it can become…
Plea bargaining is often sold as efficiency. The danger starts when that efficiency turns into manipulation, coercion,…
Too often, sentencing decisions are treated as sterile calculations—months, years, guidelines, ranges. What gets erased in that…
Editorial Transparency Requests for comment were not returned. This piece is based on court records, publicly available…
Michigan’s sentencing guidelines are supposed to create structure. The harder question is who is interpreting that structure,…
Sentencing errors don’t always show up as dramatic mistakes. Sometimes they show up as decisions that don’t…
The systems we build don’t come out of nowhere. They reflect what we’ve already normalized. Mass incarceration…
Note: Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker and Barry County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to requests for…
? Legislative Update The Family Rights Visitation Bill was subsequently introduced as HB 6090. For the latest…
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