“It’s Crushing”: The Lasting Trauma of the Exonerated

“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 …

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 …

The case against the trauma plot

“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 …

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. …

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.

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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 …

Judge calls BS on “Shaken Baby Syndrome”

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 …

Restorative justice for sex offenders: Please join us

Injustice in Ohio: A just published book about the Smith-Allen case

Dr. Bernard Rosenthal is a distinguished scholar and historian who is a leading expert on the Salem Witch Trials. While serving on the Board of Directors of the National Center for Reason and Justice, he became interested in the …