Innocence is not enough to get you out of prison. 2015/3/11-In May, the Innocence Network will hold its annual conference at a glitzy Hilton in Orlando, Florida. Lawyers, students, and activists from all over the country who work to overturn …..
2015/03/10 – Reading the headlines out of Madison, Wisconsin, it’s hard not to think about Ferguson, Missouri. But law enforcement’s response to the shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson will not unfold in the same chaotic, violent and distrusting way as the …..
2015/03/06 – Fifty years ago this weekend, a 25-year-old John Lewis was beaten so badly by Alabama state troopers that they fractured his skull. Lewis calls the Edmund Pettus Bridge — where the troopers and and a group of white men …..
From unconstitutional searches to racist emails, here are some of the most revolting findings 2015/3/4-The Justice Department released its full report on the Ferguson Police Department on Wednesday, seven months after Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed African American teen Michael …..
2015/03/04 – The Justice Department on Wednesday released a scathing 102-page report revealing systemic racial discrimination against African-Americans at the hands of the Ferguson Police Department and city officials. After an extensive federal civil rights probe, the Justice Department found what it described …..