A busy work week with lots of student conferences, Zoom meetings aplenty, and a great OSJCL symposium got me behind on interesting reading (and blogging) on a variety of criminal justice fronts. So, catching up, here are some recent pieces catching my eye:
From The Atlantic, "Anissa Jordan Took Part in a Robbery. She Went to Prison for Murder. The legal doctrine that allows people to be prosecuted for murder even if they didn’t kill anyone has fallen out of favor across the globe. In America, it remains common."
From Courthouse News Service, "House Examines Supreme Court Shadow Docket"
From Fox17, "Michigan's recidivism rate continues to decline, MDOC says"
From the Los Angeles Times, "Years ago, I applauded the 40-year sentence for a shooter at a party. Now I’m rethinking things"
From National Geographic(!), "Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong. Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t guilty—their lives upended by a system that nearly killed them."
From the New York Review of Books, "America’s Hidden Gulag: The nationwide federal detention of immigrants in county jails perpetuates a profit-driven system of mass incarceration."
From NBC News, "Did Illinois get bail reform right? Criminal justice advocates are optimistic: 'We live in a system today where we use money as the sole determining factor in determining whether somebody is going to be in jail or out of jail,' one justice advocate said."
From Reuters, "Biden's attorney general pick Garland to prioritize civil rights, combating domestic terror"
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