COMMENTARY | For too long, the voices of victims and survivors have been overlooked by the criminal justice system A few years ago, I worked with kids from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. I was invited to a summer training to lead activities designed ...
27 Apr 2017 - Amy Davidson
Poll finds widespread support among voters for defelonizing simple drug possession As lawmakers in Salem consider a bill to make possession of illicit drugs a misdemeanor rather than a felony, a statewide poll of Oregon voters reveals widespread support a ...
9 Mar 2017 - Emily Green
The Slate senior editor says Justice Scalia’s philosophy of originalism is a farce – and so is judicial activism Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor for Slate, writes about the Supreme Court and the United States’ judicial system. But this isn’t the leaden c ...
2 Mar 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
Dean Strang and Jerry Buting were the defense attorneys in the documentary series “Making a Murderer.” Now, they are promoting conversations worldwide about justice. In the O2 Academy, a 2,550-capacity venue in Glasgow, Scotland, that’s used to hosting th ...
16 Nov 2016 - Laura Kelly
The move reflects changing attitudes toward addicts, placing compassion over criminalization The Canadian government legalized prescription heroin this past week. The move comes four months after Health Canada proposed the regulatory change, and ahead of ...
15 Sep 2016 - Emily Green
The former New York Times editor leads The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focusing on criminal justice In February 2014, Bill Keller shocked the media world when he left the New York Times after 30 years to start a national conversation a ...
9 Jun 2016 - Adam Sennott
What do monetary sanctions look like here? As the financial burdens placed on those who come into contact with the American criminal justice system draw increasing criticism – and the attention of the Obama administration – we wondered: What do these mone ...
7 Jun 2016 - Emily Green
Sociologist Alexes Harris explains how America’s justice system comes down harder on people in poverty Alexes Harris studies how people are punished in the United States. Growing up in Seattle in the 1990s as a woman of color, she watched as those around ...
7 Jun 2016 - Emily Green
As Multnomah County grapples with widespread inequities in its criminal justice system, heads turn toward the D.A. Prosecutors wield a tremendous amount of power in the courtroom, and in an effort to keep it that way, they systematically block attempts to ...
21 Apr 2016 - Emily Green
After nearly two decades behind bars, much of it in solitary confinement, the Detroit author has turned his experience into a lesson of redemption Shaka Senghor describes his younger self as a “young drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pi ...
3 Apr 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe