Alec Karakatsanis has yet another new debtor’s prison lawsuit, this time in Jackson, Mississippi. I think David Menschel tweets it well: Badass lawyer @equalityAlec sues yet another jurisdiction – this time Jackson, MS – over modern-day debtors’ prisons. No person has
This morning, Alec Karakatsanis and a team of Tennessee lawyers filed a class action civil rights debtors’ prison lawsuit in federal court in Nashville. The complaint alleges a systemic corruption, extortion, and racketeering conspiracy that has corrupted the basic delivery
An important op-ed by Systemic Justice Project Board of Advisors member Alec Karakatsanis on the way that political fear is preventing illegally sentenced prisoners from being released. There are many people like Mr. Gilbert in America’s federal prisons — people
A great piece in Slate on the heroic efforts of Systemic Justice Project Board of Advisor member Alec Karakatsanis to tackle incarceration of people unable to pay money bail: For Karakatsanis, co-founder of the nonprofit civil rights organization Equal Justice Under Law,
From LA Times (an article by Teresa Watanabe about impressive work of former student, Annie Hudson-Price (above left)): In a groundbreaking effort to address a key underlying cause of poor academic performance, students who have suffered from violence and other
Last week a South Carolina judge took the unprecedented step of vacating the 1944 conviction of a black 14-year-old boy, the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century, on the grounds that he, George Stinney, Jr.,