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WEB6 days ago · Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices and provide our community with the information and resources needed to hold power to account. As a nonprofit newsroom, our work is made possible by donations from readers like you. Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism ...
Darlie Lynn Routier: Remains in prison, awaiting long-overdue …
WEBOct 29, 2019 · Responding to Darlie Lynn Routier’s frantic 911 call from her Dallas County home in 1996, police found her two sons, Devon Routier, 6, and Damon Routier, 5, dying of stab wounds. There were knife wounds to Routier’s neck, forearm and shoulder. A broken wine glass lay on the ground, and there was a torn window screen in the garage.
Consequences of Over 200,000 People Serving Life in U.S. Prisons
WEBDec 5, 2023 · People 55 years old and older, who run a higher risk of serious complications and death from Covid-19, make up 12% of the state prison populations but 30% of people serving life, the study found. In 2020, 61,417 people older than age 55 were serving a life sentence, according to the study. Prisons are fiscally responsible for housing, feeding ...
Jury trials are disappearing. Here's why. | Injustice Watch
WEBFeb 17, 2021 · Mandatory Minimum Sentences. In the federal criminal justice system, fewer than 2% of cases went to trial in the 12-month period ending in March 2020, the most recent for which data from the federal judiciary is available. Fifty percent of judges and 85% percent of defense attorneys surveyed by Diamond and …
Cook County judicial elections, explained | Injustice Watch
WEBFeb 16, 2022 · Injustice Watch and WBEZ’s Curious City are teaming up to answer your questions about judicial elections. In the voting booth, after marking their choices for governor, president, senators, and state reps, Cook County voters face the longest part of the ballot: circuit court judges. Voter participation on this part of the ballot drops off ...
5 big ideas to stop sentencing innocent people to death
WEBDec 13, 2019 · Of more than 8,500 death sentences issued since 1976, only 166 people have won exoneration — just under two percent — but legal experts estimated in 2014 that courts sentence innocent criminal defendants to death at more than twice that rate. Larry Swearingen was executed by the state of Texas in August. Texas Department of …
Our Staff - Injustice Watch
WEBMaya Dukmasova Senior Reporter Maya Dukmasova reports on judges, prisons, and the courts. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2021, Maya was a senior writer at the Chicago Reader, where she produced award-winning long-form features and investigative stories, as well as profiles, film reviews, and essays on a wide range of topics.
Debunking right-wing propaganda about the SAFE-T Act
WEBSep 15, 2022 · There’s no ‘Purge Law’: Debunking right-wing propaganda about the SAFE-T Act. Myths, half-truths, and obvious falsehoods about the SAFE-T Act have spread like wildfire. Injustice Watch breaks down and fact-checks some of the most egregious claims. Republican officials and fake news sites are fomenting a …
Kary B. Mullis: A lament for the loss of a life that saved many
WEBAug 18, 2019 · More than a score of innocent men sentenced to death in 13 states have been exonerated and freed from prison in the last 26 years thanks to Kary Banks Mullis, who died this month at age 74 at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. Mullis was neither a lawyer nor an activist. Rather he was a biochemist, whose contribution to …
Judicial Elections - Injustice Watch
WEB6 days ago · The next judicial elections in Illinois will take place on November 5, 2024. Injustice Watch’s judicial election guide for the 2024 general election will be out Oct. 8. In Cook County, 77 judges are running to retain their seats on the bench. Scroll down to learn more about the upcoming judicial races, read original reporting from our team ...