The Criminal Justice Reform Blog

Bail Reform – No Get Out of Jail Free Cards – Beware Quick Fixes

https://youtu.be/btO7JHQYwUA The Bail Problem People are stuck in jail before they're even convicted of a crime all because they cannot afford to make bail. These people are not only costing states billions of dollars each year, but their plight wages lasting...

Collision of Law & Order and Criminal Justice Reform

During New Years Celebrations last year the terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey took place, killing some 39 people. That’s how 2017 began. Since then, 2017 has proven to be a year that recorded the highest number of “mass killings” the world has ever seen. From Las...

Prosecutor Apologizes for 40 Year Wrongful Conviction

https://youtu.be/aohZXtAboBM A Prosecutor looks the man whom he wrongfully convicted forty years earlier in the eye and apologizes. Two men shake hands. Two men who could hardly have more drastically different plights in life stand face to face. Forty years...

A Response to the NYC Terror Attack of 10/31/17

https://youtu.be/BEjkDBDvXqY The New Normal. Terror and using cars as a weapon. It saddens me that this is the world that we live in. Yet we cannot change the issues of our times. We live in an America that is, by choice or not, at war with radicalized Muslim...

2017: Another Record Year for Exonerations?

For the last three years in a row, we have had some exciting news from the world of Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice Reform. 2016 saw yet another record high number of exonerations, a trend for the last three years. [You can read the study here]. If you...

TV Justice vs Criminal Justice

Likely there is a percentage of readers of this blog who believe that the way I write about the criminal justice system is biased, unfair, skewed, or maybe just flat wrong. Criminal Justice, the problems of Mass Incarceration, and Wrongful Convictions are not things...