What We’ve Learned Since the Murder of Kenneth Herring — While the racial divides over race, guns, and vigilante violence remain, there was a collective, American exhale following the outcome of the McMichael-Bryan trial. The newly repealed citizen’s arrest statute was perhaps the most contentious point of argument. Though its legal interpretation has been heavily debated, Americans across the political…

Technical violations are reminders that America’s mass incarceration problem has nothing to do with moral decline. — Twitter collectively gasped after learning about a criminal case involving 76-year-old grandmother, Gwen Levi. Levi was recently arrested for violating her probation because she missed several phone calls from a protection observer during a computer class. Her probation was revoked, and she was arrested. She is currently awaiting transfer from…

Georgia re-opens, but COVID Continues to Claim Lives Behind Bars — On March 26th, a 49-year old man housed in Lee State Prison in Leesburg, Georgia died from COVID-19-related complications. Positive cases and subsequent hospitalizations quickly spread throughout the prison, as access to treatment, and sanitation supplies dwindled in the facility. Facing mounting criticism from the general public and the criminal…