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Wrongful Convictions

Juror fights to overturn conviction, years after she sent a teenager away

“Justice delayed is justice denied,” Megan Crane says. “Mike has now been 26 and a half years without justice, and sure, he’s been home three years on lifetime parole, but he still doesn’t know who killed his mother, and he and his family haven’t seen justice for that.”

St. Louis Magazine

Advocating for the Rights of the Incarcerated

He’s on Death Row for Murders. Prison Workers Say He Should Be Spared.

Brian Dorsey, who pleaded guilty to murder in the 2006 killings of Sarah and Ben Bonnie, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday unless Missouri’s governor or the courts step in.

The New York Times

Wrongful Convictions

Chicago City Council OKs $50 million settlement with 4 men wrongfully convicted of 1995 murders

"Charles, Larod, Lashawn, and Troshawn are among the scores of kids who the Chicago Police Department has targeted for false arrest and coercive interrogations over the years, leading to Chicago's reputation as the False Confession Capital of the country," said Alex Van Brunt, Johnson's attorney and the director of the Illinois office of the MacArthur Justice Center, in a statement after the approval of the settlement.

CBS News

Advocating for the Rights of the Incarcerated

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

“There is nothing innovative or interesting about this system of forced labor as punishment for what in so many instances is an issue of poverty or substance abuse,” said Cliff Johnson, director of the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi.

Associated Press

Holding Police and Prosecutors Accountable

Chicago will drop controversial ShotSpotter gunfire detection system

"Surveillance technology has a veneer of objectivity, but many of these systems do not work as advertised," said Jonathan Manes, an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center who spearheaded the study, in a 2021 statement. "High-tech tools can create a false justification for the broken status quo of policing and can end up exacerbating existing racial disparities."

NPR

Advocating for the Rights of the Incarcerated

Report: Louisiana often holds inmates beyond release dates

Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people beyond their release dates, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday in a report concluding that the state has failed for years to develop solutions to “systemic overdetentions” that violate inmates’ rights and are costly to taxpayers.

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