Over and over and over again we see prisons ignoring the agreements they have made! I SAW it with Delaware D O C. See related posts under Prison Abuse. Excerpts from the Article: On June 13, 2018, attorneys representing mentally ill defendants held in Colorado jails moved to reopen a 2012 class-action settlement in which the state agreed to cease “warehousing” mentally ill prisoners and provide them with timely evaluations. According to...

The former assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. attorney, deputy attorney general and, briefly in 2017, acting attorney general, sho served with distinction under Democrats and Republicans alike, Sally Yates, highlights the principal ways tRump has proven to be a disaster for much needed criminal justice reform. Excerpts from the Article:   The latest episode of the reality-show presidency had our president conferring with Kanye West in the Oval...

It would not surprise me if in-depth studies showed the same for all states! Mr. Grisham here shows us some of the problems, and how things have changed.   Excerpts from the Article: Today, there are 141 people on North Carolina’s death row. By comparison, in Virginia, a state with similar politics, demographics, and crime rates, there are just three. It is both out of line with other states and out of character for North Carolina to have...

CALL ME – MY EXPERIENCE FOLKS – this means YOU! If you know anyone with a criminal justice question, a legal question, tell them to CALL me!!! Not a bunch of type type type… CALL 302-423-4067. I work every day from about 3 or 4 a m until 8 or 10 pm. I hate to toot my own horn but the FACT is I am able to help most (over 95%) of those who call. Not because I am a friggin’ genius, but because there are few people on this planet...

The most dramatic example of how totally fucked up out criminal justice system has become is that we are convicting hundreds of innocent people every year. See related articles for how it got this way, much more on this issue, and all the causes of wrongful convictions.  Several states, thank God, now have CIUs , usually within the office of the prosecutor= Conviction Integrity Unit. I was a prosecutor for 5 years, and from day one it was clear...