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News Articles: Criminal Justice

Jason Sheffield of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

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The ripple effects of Georgia's public defender shortage

A shortage of public defenders in Georgia is leaving attorneys overburdened and those accused of crimes waiting for a proper defense. Some public defender advocates say its time for the state to fund them properly.

February 17, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
Georgia Capitol building

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Tough-on-crime theme of 2023 Georgia Legislature underpinned by proposed new bail requirements

The Georgia Senate Public Safety Committee Wednesday advanced a bill that would add bail requirements to a laundry list of criminal offenses in order to get released from jail.

February 16, 2023
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Atlanta-based journalist Josie Duffy Rice is the host of the podcast "Unreformed."

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Atlanta journalist spotlights stories of violence at Alabama's Mt. Meigs

A new podcast spotlights the stories of survivors of violence at Mt. Meigs, a school in Montgomery, Ala., billed as an institution for reform for troubled Black children.

February 09, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
The dictionary definition of the word "and" is pictured from the American Heritage dictionary.

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Drug sentencing ruling hinges on definition of simple, common word

An appeals court reviewed federal sentencing guidelines and ruled that the word "and" really means "and."

December 08, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
Andrea Guice, right, talks to Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole spokesperson Steve Hayes after the board's September meeting. Guice's brother has served 8 years in prison after his first possible parole date. "Who do we need to talk to and how can we, you know, get together with the system to make it better for him?” Guice asked.

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  • Law

For families, Georgia parole is a painful waiting game

The worst prison sentences — life without parole or even death — are relatively rare. For everyone else, there is the hope of parole. But critics of Georgia’s correction system say parole doesn’t happen as often as it could or should.

September 23, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship

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  • Law

Coastal Georgia's Chatham County joins other localities focused on ‘fines and fees justice’

The Savannah area could serve as a model for reform across Georgia, a state which relies heavily on fines and fees for local revenues.

August 16, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Headshot of Chris Joyner and cover of the book.

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Political Rewind: Race, justice and murder in 'The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson'

Monday on Political Rewind: The case of Clarence Henderson. Henderson was convicted and sentenced to death not once but three times for the 1948 murder of 22-year-old Buddy Stevens, an Army veteran and son of a well-known Carrollton, Ga., family. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s reporter Chris Joyner said that the strange story of Henderson and Stevens had been part of his life since he began his career in newspapers more than 20 years ago. And now, he’s turned it into a fascinating book: The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson.

March 07, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
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Clarence Henderson (center), apprehended in 1948 for a murder he likely did not commit.

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Georgia Today: The three death sentences of Clarence Henderson

In 1948, a Black sharecropper in Georgia was sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit. What happened next tells us a lot about the legal system in the United States then — and now.

February 25, 2022
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  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed four bills into law Thursday that implement some criminal justice reforms, notably one with the goal of preventing false confessions.

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Illinois Is The 1st State To Tell Police They Can't Lie To Minors In Interrogations

Under a law that goes into effect in January 2022, officials can't use common manipulative tactics, including offering leniency or suggesting that incriminating evidence exists, to people under 18.

July 16, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Posters seeking information about Sarah Everard appear near Clapham Common in London in March after her disappearance. Her body was later found in Kent in southeast England. Wayne Couzens, a London Metropolitan Police officer, has admitted to kidnapping and raping Everard.

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An Officer Admits To Rape And Kidnapping Of Sarah Everard In A Case That Drew Outrage

Police constable Wayne Couzens, 48, also took responsibility for Everard's death but did not enter a formal plea on a murder charge in the 33-year-old marketing executive's killing.

June 08, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
N.J. Gov Phil Murphy, seen above on Dec. 15, 2020, has announced the closing of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. The prison has "a long history of abusive incidents," he said.

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  • Law

New Jersey Is Closing Its Only Women's Prison After Rampant Abuse By Guards

The announcement by Gov. Phil Murphy came as the state released a report about brutal cell extractions this year that left prisoners with injuries ranging from scratches to a fractured eye socket.

June 07, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton

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  • Law

Lawmakers Brief: Right To Speedy Trials Could ‘Overwhelm’ Court System, Ga. Chief Justice Warns

Georgia’s court system could face an “avalanche of demands” that would “overwhelm” it following the yearlong shutdown because of the pandemic.

March 16, 2021
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  • Donna Lowry
In this Oct. 19, 1960 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. under arrest by Atlanta Police Captain R.E. Little, left rear, passes through a picket line outside Rich's Department Store, in atlanta.

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  • History

Georgia Today: How MLK's Prison Sentence Landed JFK In The White House

Weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for participating in a lunch counter sit-in in Atlanta and sentenced to four months of hard labor. Thanks to some back-channel moves by the Kennedy campaign, King was released from prison. On Georgia Today, author Paul Kendrick explains how that changed party allegiances for Black and white voters in the South for generations.

February 24, 2021
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  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Sean Powers
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  • National

U.S. Capitol Mob Brings Questions, Fallout For Pro-Trump Police

Some officers are being investigated over involvement at the protests, while others fought off protesters who once supported them.

January 12, 2021
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  • Martin Kaste
In New York City, homicides were up nearly 40% over the previous year by Dec. 20, 2020. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the numbers should worry New Yorkers.

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Massive 1-Year Rise In Homicide Rates Collided With The Pandemic In 2020

Experts say crime across the U.S. in 2020 was like no other year as COVID-19 ravaged the country and protests flared. It was a seesaw of dips for some crimes and spikes for others, such as homicide.

January 06, 2021
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  • Cheryl Corley
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