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Rethinking Reform: Prisons in America – Won students at a Phoenix High School national recognition
Metropolitan Arts Institute is a private charter High School focused on the arts. The School’s filmmaking classes produced the top two winners of StudentCam 2016 for the Western region. Daniela Mock-Zubia and her partner in the project, Sophia Taglienti, wrote, shot and edited a documentary titled Rethinking Reform: Prisons in
National Reentry Week, April 24-30, 2016
National Reentry Week, April 24-30, 2016 “Under the Obama Administration, the Department of Justice has taken major steps to make our criminal justice system more fair, more efficient, and more effective at reducing recidivism and helping formerly incarcerated individuals contribute to their communities. An important part of that task is preparing
TUCSON EVENT – JUBILIEE FOR JUSTICE, March 31, 2016, 6-9 pm
Jubilee for Justice – AJP Event! MARCH 31, 2016, TUCSON, ARIZONA! Please join us at Club Congress located at 311 E. Congress Street in Tucson, Arizona on March 31st! Come listen to live music performed by Salvador Duran and Carlos Azarte, and meet exonerees Khalil Rushdan and Eddie Lowery. The doors
For Arizona’s wrongfully convicted, life after prison brings hardship and hope
Drayton Witt helps his daughter, Ellie Mae Justice Witt, up the jungle gym at Rio Vista Community Park (Photo by Erica L. Lang/Cronkite News) __________ By Erica L. Lang | Cronkite News | POSTED: Mar 3, 2016 For 12 years, Drayton Witt passed his days behind bars, surrounded by rapists,
IN THE NEWS: Woman Exonerated After Serving 10 Years for Manslaughter Conviction
Picture: Vanessa Gathers, 58, with Ken Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, after her manslaughter conviction was vacated on Tuesday. Credit Andrew Kelly for The New York Times By SARAH MASLIN NIR, New York Times – FEB. 23, 2016 In a gray suit, her short hair neatly curled, Vanessa Gathers sat
Sharing: Prisoners Exonerated, Prosecutors Exposed
FACT: On average, 3 convicted people are now exonerated of their crimes every week. Travis Dove for The New York Times In 2015, 149 people convicted of crimes large and small — from capital murder to burglary — were exonerated. It is the highest yearly total since this grim form
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Supreme Court: Life sentences on juveniles open for later reviews
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that those sentenced as teenagers to mandatory life imprisonment for murder must have a chance to argue that they should be released from prison. The ruling expanded the court’s 2012 decision that struck down mandatory life terms without parole for juveniles and said it must
The $40/Hr Defense Lawyer: ‘Making A Murderer’ Attorney Dean Strang Discusses The Economics of Innocence
“One of the central themes of the Netflix NFLX -3.13% documentary Making a Murderer was the imbalance of resources between the prosecution in the Steven Avery case, and Avery’s own defense team. But with a few brief exceptions, there wasn’t much attempt to actually examine it in terms of dollars
Rethinking Reform: Prisons in America
“Rethinking Reform” calls attention to the complex prison system in the United States, and examines the repercussions that mass incarceration has on individuals and families. Video: http://www.viddler.com/v/c882514e?secret=50540044 Pics from the film:
Sharing: ‘Making a Murderer’ shows that our justice system needs a healthy dose of humility
By Keith A. Findley January 15 Keith A. Findley is co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Guilty or innocent? Viewers addicted to the Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer” are fiercely debating the case of Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey. In
False Confessions Like Brendan Dassey’s Are Common Among Exonerated Juveniles
Minors are psychologically susceptible to being coerced into false confessions and yet frequently interrogated without parents or lawyers around. New details about the case against Steven Avery keep emerging as U.S. audiences flock to Making a Murderer, the Netflix series documenting Avery’s path from wrongfully convicted inmate to free man suing
2015: A Year to Remember in False Confessions
By Steve Drizin, Clinical law professor, Northwestern University School of Law 2015 was another momentous year in the world of false confessions. Here are my greatest hits: January 2015 begins tragically as two exonerated false confessors from New York die — Sharrif Wilson, aged 38, and Daniel Gristwood, aged 48.