| Mar 13, 2024 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyMany Americans haven’t heard of cash bail. But the idea is central to an election year battle over racism, policing, and mass incarceration. When arrested on suspicion of committing a crime, everyone in the United States has the right to due process and to defend...
| Jun 9, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWith straps fastening his body to a gurney, Joseph Wood coughed and snorted as he gasped for breath. Wood’s execution was supposed to take 10 minutes and require one injection. Instead, he tried and failed more than 600 times to acquire air over the course of about...
| Apr 28, 2021 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyTens of millions of people in this country have experienced violence, abuse, and sexual assault. These are traumatic experiences, often made all the worse for survivors by the legal system. Now there’s a movement underway to change that. In university law classes and...
| Oct 7, 2020 | Rights / DemocracyHow nasty is the Republican Party’s massive campaign to thwart democracy? Ask the good people of Florida. This was one of only three states that permanently took away the voting rights of people with felonies who’d completed their punishment. In 2018, though, a...
| Jul 22, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAlmost nobody expects jail time for failure to pay a parking ticket or highway toll, right? But in most U.S. cities, public transit riders can be charged with a misdemeanor for failure to pay the full fare. The punishment for “fare evasion” is on par with that of...
