Quick Facts Solitary confinement isn’t safety. It’s a proven risk factor — for prisoners and staff alike….
Constitutional systems are not defined solely by power. They are defined by restraint. Authority exists within limits, and those limits matter most when they are inconvenient.
When executive power begins to disregard legal boundaries, when enforcement agencies operate with diminished accountability, and when courts defer rather than constrain, the system does not merely bend. It changes character.
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Nearly 40 percent of incarcerated people have a diagnosed mental illness. Another majority have trauma histories so severe they’d meet clinical criteria, if anyone bothered to check
Digital spaces were supposed to connect us. Instead, for women and girls, they’ve become a battleground. The…
Families were never supposed to become investigators. But when the system breaks down when police ignore red…
When all legal avenues within the United States have been exhausted, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights…
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.
In theory, prosecutors are supposed to seek justice, not just convictions. In practice, unchecked prosecutorial power has…
Mainstream coverage of Michigan’s mental health crisis in county jails is long overdue. For decades, advocates and…
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