Kamala Harris Was a Tough-on-Crime Prosecutor in a Black Lives …
WEBJan 22, 2019 · Kamala Harris Was a Tough-on-Crime Prosecutor in a Black Lives Matter Era. Long after the American public became aware mass incarceration was a failed experiment, Harris failed to support progressive measures to alleviate some of its impact. This article was published in the Jan. 22 Daily Appeal newsletter. It is …
How Eviction Courts Stack The Deck Against Tenants
WEBApr 13, 2021 · Stage Two: Serving Notice and Summons to Appear in Court. If the issue is not resolved by the specified time, then the landlord will file what’s called an “unlawful detainer action” against the tenant in eviction court, formally asking the court to force the tenant to leave the property. Before that happens, courts must provide tenants ...
The Power of Sheriffs: Explained - The Appeal
WEBJan 4, 2019 · Similarly, sheriffs today sometimes use their power to excess, violating civil liberties. In Worth County, Georgia, in 2017, the sheriff subjected up 850 high school students at Worth County High School, nearly the entire student body, to invasive drug searches, including checking inside their underwear, according to court documents.
Incarcerated Transgender Women’s Lives Must Matter
WEBJan 28, 2019. When Kamala Harris announced her run for president on Jan. 21, a reporter asked her about the 2015 case of Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, a trans woman incarcerated in California’s prison system who petitioned prison officials to grant her request for gender affirming surgery. In 2015, Harris was California’s attorney general and ...
Felony Murder, Explained - The Appeal
WEBMar 4, 2021 · Felony Murder, Explained. The felony murder rule has a long and complicated history that is worth examining precisely because it’s not that simple. The sight of the United States Capitol shrouded in tear gas, besieged by rioters marauding toward a joint session of Congress, shocked the national conscience. Five people died at the riot, and in ...
Bail Reform: Explained - The Appeal
WEBJun 14, 2018 · Jessica Brand, Jessica Pishko. Jun 14, 2018. In San Francisco, 64-year-old Kenneth Humphrey spent a year in jail, held on a $350,000 bond he could not pay, after being accused of entering a man’s home and stealing $7 and a bottle of cologne. In setting Humphrey’s bail amount, the trial court made no inquiry into his ability to pay or any ...
Criminalizing Homelessness Violates the Constitution
WEBMay 29, 2020 · The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over most of the western United States, has been a leader on this jurisprudence, in part because of the high rates of homelessness in California and Hawaii and the punitive laws passed in those jurisdictions. But other federal courts around the country have followed suit. Local leaders ...
How Sheriffs’ Power and Autonomy Make Them Central ... - The …
WEB340, Jessica Pishko. Sep 26, 2019. The third edition of The Badge, an ongoing Political Report series on the powers of sheriffs, looks at a site of heated political battles: policing. First elected in 2004, Sheriff Morris Young of Gadsden County, Florida has since worked to reorient law enforcement tactics. One of his strategies: instructing ...
Capital Punishment in the United States: Explained
WEBSep 24, 2018. In August 2018, the state of Tennessee executed Billy Ray Irick, the first man executed in the state since 2009. He had spent over 30 years on death row. As a child, Irick experienced unimaginable abuse. His mother would tie him up with a rope and beat him. Neighbors described his father as “an excessive drinker and a brutal man ...
The Movement to Decriminalize Psilocybin, Explained
WEBMar 1, 2021 · Over the last two years, several U.S. cities have decriminalized psilocybin either through ballot initiative or city council vote. In May 2019, Denver became the first city in the country to decriminalize “the use and possession of mushrooms containing the psychedelic compound psilocybin.”. Since then, a decentralized organization known as ...
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