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…
When one of Michigan’s most effective wrongful-conviction advocates retires, the real question is not just who replaces…
Michigan’s sentencing guidelines are supposed to create structure. The harder question is who is interpreting that structure,…
Prosecutors are measured like system expanders, then everyone acts surprised when they keep expanding the system. The…
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…
A 2017 study by the highly regarded Vera Institute — supported by the National Institute of Corrections…
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