Human Rights

Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection in Missouri yesterday after Gov. Mike Parson (R), the Missouri Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court all refused to save his life. Prosecutors and the victim’s…

On Aug. 9, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. Police left Brown’s lifeless body in the hot sun for four hours, plainly demonstrating the…

Young voters in rural areas continue to feel ignored in politics as the presidential election intensifies, according to research this spring from the Center for Information and Research on Civic…

For the past three years, the Center for Court Innovation has run restorative justice programs in five Brooklyn high schools. All five schools are overwhelmingly Black, and all five had some…

Vermont’s only women’s prison has had restorative justice classes for the past three years. It’s a process that focuses on the offender repairing the harm caused by their actions, and…

Oregon’s Department of Justice gave few indications Tuesday it is ready to change its approach to payouts for people wrongfully convicted of crimes, at least in the near future. Lawmakers…

The Supreme Court says that people held in jails who are legally innocent have a right to vote. In reality, that’s often impossible. On Election Day, approximately 448,000 legally innocent people will…

Whether on the presidential debate stage or in races for governor, state legislatures, or city councils, candidates for elected office are falling back on an old tactic: Making spurious claims…

The 13 acres of farmland nestled in North Carolina’s Alamance County that comprise Benevolence Farm serve many different purposes: an active body care business harvesting herbs for natural soaps and…

After giving birth in 2011, Eboney Ellis says she didn’t get any time to bond with her newborn in prison. Ellis, who was incarcerated and in the custody of the…

Two incarcerated men have participated in a hunger strike for better conditions in Connecticut prisons for the past eight days. The incarcerated hunger strikers, Jacky Robinson Jr. and Cornel Myers…

In the early fall of 2020, my phone meeting with the op-ed and politics editors of the New York Times went great. After presenting pitches for several articles, the editors settled…