Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit — a squad in the prosecutor’s office set up to dig into cases such as his and free the wrongfully convicted. He was filled with hope prosecutors in the […] The post Cook County’s conviction integrity unit repeatedly denied freedom to incarcerated people who were later cleared appeared first on Injustice Watch.| Injustice Watch
The policy plan for a second Trump term would turn the department against progressive local prosecutors.| The Marshall Project
The Appeal contacted more than 120 prosecutors and city attorneys to ask if they’ll file criminal cases against campus Palestine protesters.| theappeal.org
We reported interim findings from an ongoing evaluation of a deferred prosecution program in Winnebago County, Illinois.| Loyola University of Chicago Center for Criminal Justice