Criminal Justice

August 31, 2023

Hope and Opportunity for Formerly Incarcerated Women

Each year, over 80,000 women are released from state prisons. Within five years, around half of these women are predicted to return. Most of them experienced childhoods sabotaged by violence, sexual abuse, trauma, and broken families. Continue Reading...

December 11, 2021

What the Kyle Rittenhouse trial taught America about assumptions, keeping peace

On Nov. 19, Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges related to the fatal shooting of two men and the wounding of another on the third day of widespread rioting and civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August last year. Continue Reading...

July 14, 2021

Brandt Jean’s ultimate act of forgiveness

The killing of Botham Jean continues to make headlines after Amber Guyger, an off-duty police officer who mistook Jean for an intruder in her apartment, then shot and killed him, has asked an appeals court to toss her murder conviction. Continue Reading...