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WEBAug 21, 2024 · Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices and provide our community with the information and resources needed to hold power to account. As a nonprofit newsroom, our work is made possible by ...
Darlie Lynn Routier: Remains in prison, awaiting long-overdue …
WEBOct 29, 2019 · Responding to Darlie Lynn Routier’s frantic 911 call from her Dallas County home in 1996, police found her two sons, Devon Routier, 6, and Damon Routier, 5, dying of stab wounds. There were knife wounds to Routier’s neck, forearm and shoulder. A broken wine glass lay on the ground, and there was a torn window screen in the garage.
Our Staff - Injustice Watch
WEBMaya Dukmasova Senior Reporter Maya Dukmasova reports on judges, prisons, and the courts. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2021, Maya was a senior writer at the Chicago Reader, where she produced award-winning long-form features and investigative stories, as well as profiles, film reviews, and essays on a wide range of topics.
Judicial Elections - Injustice Watch
WEBApr 11, 2024 · The next judicial elections in Illinois will take place on November 5, 2024. In Cook County, 78 judges will be running to retain their seats on the bench. Injustice Watch’s judicial election guide for the 2024 general election will be out in early October. Scroll down to learn more about the upcoming judicial races, read original reporting ...
Jury trials are disappearing. Here's why. | Injustice Watch
WEBFeb 17, 2021 · Less than 2% of federal criminal cases go to a jury trial. A new study sheds light on the reasons so many people forego their day in court. The right to trial by an impartial jury is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. But in U.S. courtrooms today, the vast majority of people forego this right, opting instead to settle or plead guilty.
Consequences of Over 200,000 People Serving Life in U.S. Prisons
WEBDec 5, 2023 · People 55 years old and older, who run a higher risk of serious complications and death from Covid-19, make up 12% of the state prison populations but 30% of people serving life, the study found. In 2020, 61,417 people older than age 55 were serving a life sentence, according to the study. Prisons are fiscally responsible for housing, feeding ...
Sonia Jacobs: Convicted Despite Gun Residue on Another Suspect
WEBNov 25, 2019 · Sonia Jacobs was convicted of the murder of a Florida state trooper and a visiting Canadian constable at a rest stop outside Miami in 1976; she was on death row for nearly five years before the Florida state court ruled the judge had improperly imposed the death sentence even when the jury did not. by John Seasly November 25, 2019.
Report: Juvenile Detention Center Is ‘Isolating and Deprivational’
WEBAug 23, 2022 · A blue ribbon committee convened by Chief Judge Tim Evans found that conditions at the JTDC were “isolating and deprivational.”. Photo from the Blue Ribbon Committee on the JTDC. In a scathing new report, a group of juvenile justice experts said the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center — …
David Chandler: Evidence of innocence moves him off death row, …
WEBNov 4, 2019 · This story is the seventh in a series, Unrequited Innocence, that looks at cases where people were sentenced to die and have not been exonerated despite significant evidence of innocence. Nobody doubts that Charles Ray Jarrell Sr. shot and killed Marlin Shuler, a marijuana dealer, in 1990, after the two had been drinking beer together by a northern Alabama lake.
Meet the new class of Cook County associate judges - Injustice …
WEBSep 15, 2021 · New class of Cook County associate judges more racially diverse than past years. Former prosecutors dominate the roster of 22 new associate judges, who were selected last week by the county’s circuit judges. by Aviva Waldman, Carlos Ballesteros and Josh McGhee September 15, 2021. Facebook. X. Illustration by Melissa Fernandez for Injustice Watch.
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