In Florida, Confusion on Restoring Felons’ Voting Rights
Last November, nearly 65% of Florida voters backed a ballot initiative known as the Voting Restoration Act, or Amendment 4, to overturn the state’s lifetime disenfranchisement of persons with felony...
View ArticleThe First Step Act and the Changing Face of the Law
We spend a lot of time pointing out where the justice system is failing, but it’s equally important to acknowledge what is going right. Even though sentencing and trials can move at the pace of...
View ArticleBack-End Sentencing: Re-Incarceration for Parole Violations
Does a paroled offender’s sentence truly end when he or she is released from jail? Or does the judicial process have a hiccup that can prevent successful re-entry into society? Many would argue that...
View ArticleJailed for Murders He Didn’t Commit, Detroit Youth Davontae Sanford Can’t...
Davontae Sanford has thus far had a short but very eventful life. Now aged 25, the Detroit resident spent nearly nine years incarcerated for crimes of which he was later exonerated. In September 2007,...
View ArticleHow the Federal Government Shutdown Affects Federal Prisons
A partial shutdown of the federal government began at midnight, December 22, 2018, and continues as of this writing in late January 2019. It began because Congress and the President hadn’t finalized...
View ArticleSupreme Court Eases Armed Career Criminal Act Test for ‘Violent Felony’
In its January 15 decision in Stokeling v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that even a state-law robbery counts towards triggering the mandatory 15-year sentence enhancement under the...
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SXSW 2019 Film Review: ‘The Highwaymen’ – An Un-Remake of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’
In an era when every third film out of Hollywood is a remake, seeing a new take on an old story is refreshing. The Highwaymen, by Netflix, approaches a tale we have probably seen before, the story of...
View ArticleTheater Review (NYC): ‘Entangled’ by Gabriel Jason Dean and Charly Evon Simpson
Entangled is a departure from The Amoralists‘ wonted gritty realism. This epistolary two-hander by Gabriel Jason Dean and Charly Evon Simpson tackles an agonizing subject ripped bloodily from the...
View Article5th Circuit Slaps Down Contempt Order Against Federal Bureau of Prisons
A recent decision by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit slapped down a federal district court in Texas that had issued a contempt finding and injunction against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)...
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NAB Show 2024: Award Time for Donnie Simpson, Jennifer Hudson, and ‘America’s...
When one thinks about the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, you can’t help but picture convention halls overflowing with the latest in audio and video technology. But tech without...
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