Judicial Accountability Michigan’s judicial oversight body operates almost entirely in secret by constitutional design. In 2023 it…
Same system. Same county. Different outcomes that don’t reconcile. Sentencing is supposed to reflect proportionality, consistency, and…
Family court is supposed to safeguard children. When power, bias, and manipulation take hold, it can become…
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…
A 2017 study by the highly regarded Vera Institute — supported by the National Institute of Corrections…
In perhaps the most brazen proof that the concept of eugenics is still alive and well today,…
Update — January 2026 For the latest Michigan Supreme Court decision on Schipper’s upward departures, read the…
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