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Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Dec 30, 2018

“Why Are Prosecutors Putting Innocent Witnesses in Jail?”

“Across America, some prosecutors — arguably with the authority of state and federal laws — are jailing innocent crime victims and witnesses, in hopes of insuring their testimony in court. In Washington State, a sexual-assault…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Dec 2, 2017

“When it comes to pretrial release, few other jurisdictions do it D.C.’s way”

“Nationally, about 47 percent of felony defendants with bonds remain jailed before their cases are heard because they cannot make bail. At the D.C. jail on 19th Street SE, no one is locked up on a…

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Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Mar 25, 2017

“The Price of a Life”

“Restivo and Neidecker live modestly, on the salary from her job at the local post office. In 2010, he received a $2.2-million settlement from the State of New York, but much of that went to lawyers and to his mother, who for two decades had spent everything she could spare on his case, at…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Aug 22, 2016

“How mass incarceration creates ‘million dollar blocks’ in poor neighborhoods”

“This is the perverse form that public investment takes in many poor, minority neighborhoods: “million dollar blocks,” to use a bleak term first coined in New York by Laura Kurgan at Columbia…

Jess Brooks in Grabbag and Chills

Aug 18, 2016

“Internet mob justice is random and severe. So is formal criminal justice.”

“The problem with mob justice, Vox’s Max Fisher wrote, is that it’s random and severe. That’s why the dentist who killed Cecil was punished by an internet mob, while other killers of rare wild animals…