When a court treats angry criticism as a jailable offense, the issue is no longer just probation…
Too often, sentencing decisions are treated as sterile calculations—months, years, guidelines, ranges. What gets erased in that…
Solitary confinement goes by many names, but the core reality stays the same: prolonged isolation is not…
An oral argument in the Michigan Court of Appeals explored the case In Re DMT, where an…
Presumption of Innocence is a well known cornerstone of the criminal justice system, a legal concept meant…
Michigan is not merely under-serving people with addiction and mental health needs. It is still routing those…
Losing liberty is one thing. Losing the ability to have a child because the state took your…
The political headline is obvious. The systems question is harder: what happens when thousands of people and…
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…
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