brianna paciorka/news sentinel We do not know enough about this case to have an informed opinion about Pastor Richards’ innocence. But a founder of the Tennessee Innocence Project believes him and is advocating for him. Read the article by Liz Kellar in the Knoxville News Sentinel.
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“It’s Crushing”: The Lasting Trauma of the Exonerated
photo credit: Steven Hirsch/New York Post “It’s PTSD that all of us in this sort of fraternity suffer,” Herman Atkins told NBC News, in a story this week about the lasting trauma of wrongful convictions on Black men convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. Black Americans make up half of all exonerees, despite being only… Continue reading “It’s Crushing”: The Lasting Trauma of the Exonerated
Dying in Prison in the “Live Free or Die” State
“Former NH detective James McLaughlin, the shady detective who was instrumental in pursuing lie after lie about Fr. Gordon MacRae sending him to a long prison term in 1994, was prominent on the Laurie List for “Falsification of Records” and/or evidence. Over 28 years of wrongful imprisonment in the New Hampshire State Prison, MacRae has… Continue reading Dying in Prison in the “Live Free or Die” State
The case against the trauma plot
illustration: Aldo Jarillo “How to account for trauma’s creep? Take your corners. Modern life is inherently traumatic. No, we’re just better at spotting it, having become more attentive to human suffering in all its gradations. Unless we’re worse at it—more prone to perceive everything as injury. In a world infatuated with victimhood, has trauma emerged… Continue reading The case against the trauma plot
The Real Monsters
“Public and political support for registries remains high. There is little evidence that attitudes have been impacted by a growing body of research showing that public registration, community notification, and residency restrictions do not decrease the incidence of sexual offense. Rates of sexual re-offense have been low both before and after registries, and sex offenses… Continue reading The Real Monsters
No Crime Wrongful Convictions
We invite you to watch this brief (about 15 minutes) TED talk on No Crime Wrongful Convictions. The cases sponsored by the NCRJ all fall into this category. Thanks to Jordan Silverman for the tip.
Restorative Justice for Sex Offenses?
On April 13, 2022. this important conference was held via Zoom. Susannah Karin is a licensed social worker with over 20 years of experience in NYC’s criminal justice system. For the past nine years, she has been coordinating re-entry services for clients of the Center for Appellate Litigation, a public defender law firm that represents… Continue reading Restorative Justice for Sex Offenses?
Judge calls BS on “Shaken Baby Syndrome”
Illustration by Claire Merchlinsky Jimenez wrote that the diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome, also known as Abusive Head Trauma, is “an assumption packaged as a medical diagnosis” and “lacks scientific grounding.” Read the article by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg in The Appeal.
Two videos from an important conference
Bill Dobbs of The Dobbs Wire sent us links to videos of a conference that took place in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 8, 2022: the eighth annual Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration (URMI) Conference. This year’s conference focused on the Minnesota Sex Offender Program — almost certainly the worst in the nation. People… Continue reading Two videos from an important conference
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