Gun-violence advocate Kina Collins takes another run at Danny Davis.
Tag: Criminal Justice
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Criminalizing queerness
Bernina Mata’s attorneys say prosecutors used homophobic rhetoric to secure a death sentence in 1999. Now they’re asking the governor to set her free.
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Chicago indie-rock trio Axons explore an infamous Chicago prison break on I Object to Everything
One of the most remarkable things about Chicago is its complex relationship with crime. The criminal-justice and court system is often so flawed, discriminatory, and unjust that it can seem as harmful as the crimes it seeks to control. For more than a century we’ve also had an entire industry dedicated to sensationalizing and mythologizing […]
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First came the sewage, then the hunger strike
After a plumbing flood at the aging Logan Correctional Center, three women organized one of the first successful hunger strikes in an Illinois women’s prison in years.
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‘Does the punishment fit the crime?’
Weed is legal in Illinois, but expunging records and freeing prisoners remains complicated.
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No complaints
Roosevelt Myles spent 28 years in prison, only to be released into a world in lockdown. He’s happier than he’s been in a long time.
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‘I’m not overreacting’
A man who has waited 20 years for a court-ordered hearing is trying to secure release from prison before the virus hits.
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‘The big house and the picket fence’
Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”
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9,008 days
In 2016, more than 2,000 adults who were sent as kids to die in prison were given a second chance. Marshan Allen was one of them.
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Celia Colón uses her story to inspire incarcerated women
The founder of Giving Others Dreams aims to transform the lives of prisoners through mental health workshops at the Cook County Jail.
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Rewriting the narrative
This story is part of the Marshall Project’s “We Are Witnesses: Chicago” series. In 15 direct-to-camera testimonies, this collection of videos gives voice to Chicagoans affected by the justice system. Watch the videos at themarshallproject.org/chicago.
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‘We Are Witnesses: Chicago’
In 15 direct-to-camera testimonies, this Marshall Project video series gives voice to Chicagoans affected by the justice system.
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‘I’m the bad guy now’: A retired cop on outing police misconduct
Bill Dorsch loved being a Chicago cop, then he witnessed misconduct by disgraced detective Reynaldo Guevara.
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Why we can’t abandon Kim Foxx
Reformers across the nation are learning to be afraid.
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Preckwinkle fund-raising e-mail seeks to capitalize on Cyntoia Brown case
But the mayoral candidate doesn’t mention ways to help the Tennessee woman who killed her sexual assaulter at 16 and got a life sentence.