From here, which is in turn from here, comes this chart: Pretty hard to look at that and argue whites and blacks have the same experience in this country; 2,207 per 100,000 African-Americans in America are in jail. That’s 2.2… Continue Reading
From here, and kind of nuts: as you can see below, there are essentially five methods by which the United States has ever killed someone (in an execution sense, at least): Hanging Firing Squad Electrocution Gas Chamber Lethal Injection Regardless… Continue Reading
The whole topic of racial attitudes around incarnation is very fraught — and also very complicated, as entire bodies of research are penned on it across people’s careers. I can’t begin to scratch the surface. I do know this, as… Continue Reading
The longest article written on the capture of El Chapo Guzman (at least in an American publication) ran in The New Yorker in early May, and pointedly addressed the fact there’s concern/mistrust among the Americans with regard to whether he’ll actually stay in… Continue Reading
So far, it’s helped exonerate 33 wrongfully-convicted inmates, and the idea of a ‘Conviction Integrity Unit’ has spread to 11 other major U.S. cities, including New York, Detroit, and Cleveland. Here’s the money quote: “In 10 years we’ll look back… Continue Reading
This isn’t a new story, but I just came across it and it seemed fairly interesting. Mandatory minimums may be on the way out, but one of the reasons they ever emerged in the first place was because of a massive perjury… Continue Reading
I watch a lot of true crime stuff, and sometimes once I know who the offender is, I look up where they’re in prison. Oftentimes, there’s some overlap. For example, remember the Craig Titus case? Well, Titus is in prison at… Continue Reading
That’s the idea behind a photo exhibit from Trent Bell (there’s an accompanying video embedded above). Only 12 men volunteered for Bell’s project, which came about when one of his good friends was sentenced to 36 years in jail — and… Continue Reading