Incarceration, Death Penalty, and Criminal Justice
Why A Victim Of Police Brutality Chose Restorative Justice For The Cop (HuffPost, July 2023)
A Portland, Oregon, police officer released a video apology three years after beating a photojournalist who sought restorative justice.
Atlanta 'Cop City' Protester's Killing And Mounting Arrests Draw Increased Scrutiny (HuffPost, May 2023)
At least 42 people have been charged with domestic terrorism in connection to the Stop Cop City movement, and one person has been killed.
Shanquella Robinson's death is being investigated as a femicide, a crime that only 16 countries recognize despite gender-based violence being a global issue (Insider, December 2022)
The US does not differentiate femicide from homicide, but prosecutors in Mexico are looking into 25-year-old Robinson's death as femicide.
Inmates across Alabama's notoriously macabre prisons are on strike: 'I'm just a slave' (Insider, October 2022)
Thousands of Alabama inmates are participating in a labor strike to draw attention to the cruel conditions behind bars.
Lethal injection is supposed to be a 'peaceful' way to execute death row inmates, but experts say it violates the US Constitution (Business Insider, February 2022)
Two Oklahoma death row inmates sought death by firing squad instead as an alternative to the three-drug lethal injection protocol
2 Black death row inmates were executed despite one having an intellectual disability and the other having a severe mental illness (Insider, January 2022)
The executions of Black inmates Donald Grant in Oklahoma and Matthew Reeves in Alabama raised concerns, advocates told Insider.
Shaka Senghor — a best-selling author who spent 7 years in solitary confinement during a 19-year sentence for murder — discusses forgiveness and flaws in the criminal justice system (Insider, January 2022)
Senghor spoke to Insider about incarceration the journey toward healing for victims, perpetrators, and communities.
The brother of a bystander killed by LAPD in 2018 says Valentina Orellana-Peralta's death is just like his sister's: 'There's so many parallels' (Insider, December 2021)
Albert Corado told Insider the death of a 14-year-old last week reminded him of the 2018 police shooting of his own sister, Melyda.
Critics say the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse and plight of Ahmaud Arbery highlight racial bias in criminal justice (Insider, November 2021)
The verdict of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, and justice for Ahmaud Arbery, are the latest in a series of criminal cases exposing institutional racism.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill into law allowing for sweeping law enforcement reform in California (Business Insider, August 2021)
The law adjusts qualified immunity — the defense that protects government officials from individual liability— for law enforcement.
Miya Marcano's family attorney said police didn't treat her disappearance as a 'high-priority case' like Gabby Petito's (Insider, October 2021)
Daryl Washington said Gabby Petito and Miya Marcano's cases gave "the world an opportunity to see some of the differences that you have" when it comes to police resources.