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Home » justice

Tag: justice

Posted inNews

Interview with podcaster Aaron Smith: ‘Get to the root of the person’

by Jim Daley February 8, 2022February 9, 2022

Season three of Escaping the Odds, a podcast about entrepreneurship for the formerly incarcerated, dropped Tuesday.

Willie Jones outside the Elite Houses of Sober Living's facility in Chicago Heights
Posted inNews & Politics

‘I’ll be the first to die’

by Michael Murney June 17, 2021August 18, 2021

As Illinois prisons accelerated releases during the pandemic, many were forced into crowded, unmonitored residential reentry centers across Cook County.

Posted inNews & Politics

Rewriting the narrative

by Sarah Watts and Lucius Wisniewski September 12, 2019August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘We Are Witnesses: Chicago’

by The Marshall Project September 12, 2019April 19, 2022

In 15 direct-to-camera testimonies, this Marshall Project video series gives voice to Chicagoans affected by the justice system.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘I’m the bad guy now’: A retired cop on outing police misconduct

by Maya Dukmasova September 12, 2019August 18, 2021

Bill Dorsch loved being a Chicago cop, then he witnessed misconduct by disgraced detective Reynaldo Guevara.

Posted inCity Life

Clear your name

by Salem Collo-Julin April 26, 2019August 18, 2021

Free advice for sealing your public record

Posted inBlogs

Q&A: Cook County Board candidate Abdelnasser Rashid on taxes, surveillance, and campaign finance reform

by Maya Dukmasova October 31, 2018August 18, 2021

Vying to flip one of four Republican seats, the 29-year-old would be the first Muslim in the county legislature.

Posted inBlogs

Mother of teen killed by Chicago police officer Marco Proano ‘glad the verdict was guilty’

by Maya Dukmasova August 30, 2017August 18, 2021

Proano never faced criminal charges for fatally shooting 19-year-old Niko Husband, whose family is still seeking justice.

Posted inNews & Politics

Can a lawsuit deliver justice after a fatal police shooting?

by Steve Bogira February 24, 2016August 18, 2021

On a summer night in 2011, Chicago police officer Marco Proano fatally shot 19-year-old Niko Husband outside a dance party. The Independent Police Review Authority said the shooting was justified. Then a civil jury took up the case.

Posted inBlogs

Why liberals should dearly miss Antonin Scalia, the Bond villain of Supreme Court justices

by Ian Belknap February 18, 2016August 18, 2021

Progressives now have no one adversary of sufficient skill and smarts to galvanize them.

Posted inNews & Politics

Cook County’s most unconventional judge takes justice beyond the bench

by Maya Dukmasova January 7, 2016August 18, 2021

She sings, she dances, she shouts—she rings a cowbell. But Judge Jackie Portman is convinced her unorthodox methods in and out of the courtroom get results.

Posted inBlogs

The 181 best things I ate and drank in 2015

by Mike Sula December 23, 2015August 18, 2021

A year of dining out and cooking yielded something uniquely delicious nearly every other day.

Posted inBlogs

Tough call: Justice and the NBA

by Michael Miner May 15, 2014August 18, 2021

NBA refs made the right calls, even if they weren’t exactly right.

R.J. Vanecko at the Rolling Meadows Courthouse on the afternoon he pleaded guilty.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

An ‘obsessive’ Sun-Times reporter is vindicated by the Vanecko case—but not content

by Michael Miner February 11, 2014August 18, 2021

An “obsessive” Sun-Times reporter is vindicated by the Vanecko case—but not content.

Francine Sanders, a former investigator for CPD’s now-defunct Office of Professional Standards, first met Nathaniel Hanserd more than 15 years ago, when he was the accused cop on one of her excessive force cases.
Posted inNews & Politics

A former investigator of police misconduct on the questions she never asked

by Francine J. Sanders September 18, 2013August 19, 2021

A former investigator of police misconduct tackles the questions she never asked.

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