(Source) As the pandemic ramped up during 2020, leaving a deadly impact on America, it left a foreseeable and catastrophic effect on incarcerated individuals that is still felt today. During COVID-19, there were more than half a million infections behind bars and over 3,000 deaths in prisons and jails. During the first 15 months
(Source) As mass incarceration continues to plague the United States criminal justice system, improved technology and evidence-gathering techniques seek to identify and exonerate the wrongfully convicted. Those accused of a crime may be wrongfully convicted for a variety of reasons such as eyewitness misidentifications, coerced false confessions, faulty forensics science, incompetent public defenders, and suppression
(Source) America incarcerates people at a higher rate than any country in the world. The highly politicized War on Drugs led to a spike in incarceration, particularly in lower-income and minority communities. Although the prison population in the United States has declined since 2016, incarceration and recidivism rates remain high. According to a study
Michaela Dudley examines a potential solution for uncovering police brutality in light of the recent jury verdict against the City of Chicago.