False Convictions — Social and Economic Issues — Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

Social and Economic Issues

Overcriminalization significantly undermines human flourishing and social well-being by harming the family, social networks, and social citizenship. Additionally, it prevents capable men and women from utilizing their creative capacities in the marketplace. This creates vast issues involving relations with family while incarcerated and reintegration into society after release. On the economic side, draconian cash bail systems undermine justice through basing someone's ability to attain pre-trial release upon their wealth, not their actual threat to society.

Cellmates

“Lee Harris spent years in prison without hope, until an unlikely friendship led to a years-long crusade to prove his innocence“

The Marshall Project

November 2, 2018

False ConvictionsPhillip ReevesNovember 2, 2018The Marshall ProjectComment

The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found

"The indictment was damning enough: A former police chief of Biscayne Park and two officers charged with falsely pinning four burglaries on a teenager just to impress village leaders with a perfect crime-solving record. But the accusations revealed in federal court last month left out far uglier details of past policing practices in tranquil Biscayne Park, a leafy wedge of suburbia just north of Miami Shores."

Miami Herald

July 12, 2018

False Convictions, Social IssuesAnthony BradleyJuly 31, 2018Miami Herald, Racial Issues

Social and Economic Issues

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