Sentencing reform does not happen only through slogans or election cycles. It also happens through who gets…
Losing liberty is one thing. Losing the ability to have a child because the state took your…
Depression after a parent’s incarceration is not a character problem or a family weakness. It is what…
A forensic lab does not fail only when one analyst cheats. It fails when the system around…
The prison sentence is imposed on one person. The damage is distributed across an entire household, and…
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,…
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…
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