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The Appeal is a nonprofit criminal justice publication providing critical news and commentary on local criminal justice systems.

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  1. 1. velj

    In case you missed all the powerful journalism we produced this week at The Appeal, here are some highlights:

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    Meaningful criminal justice reform requires more than abolishing capital punishment. "The death penalty is gruesome in how it dismisses the humanity of the condemned person...But many other aspects of our system do the same things.”

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    “I believe that the [test] results will show that my brother was executed for no reason,” Lee's sister, Patricia Young, told The Appeal. “We just want to clear his name and we don’t want his name to go in vain.”

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    BREAKING: Officials in Arkansas have agreed to release DNA and fingerprint evidence for additional forensic testing in the case of Ledell Lee, whom the state executed three years ago for a 1993 murder he always maintained he did not commit.

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    Jordan Evans, a high school student in Clayton, OH, was suspended for 10 days for smelling like marijuana. A search turned up nothing, and he passed two drug tests. “They could've asked any other students. They could've smelled others, but they picked me.”

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  6. 31. sij

    Child maltreatment fatalities are rare, but high-profile deaths can spark “foster care panics” and upticks in child removals—a phenomenon that can do more harm than good. “The more you overload the system, the greater the temptation to lower standards.”

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  7. 31. sij

    The 25,000-member American Public Health Association calls police violence a "critical public health issue,” and has identified “inappropriate stops by law enforcement” as “a form of psychological violence with serious implications.”

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    Wednesday’s Los Angeles County district attorney debate was the first time incumbent Jackie Lacey shared a stage with her challengers. Lacey skipped the first debate, citing a scheduling conflict.

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  9. 31. sij

    America does not execute the “worst of the worst,” as Donnie Lance’s case shows. It bestows death sentences on people who "endured significant trauma, suffer from serious cognitive impariments or mental illness, and who receive deficient legal counsel.”

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  10. 31. sij

    A new study in New Orleans suggests that judges impose more onerous drug testing requirements on people released from prison without money bail. “The more appearances you tack on to a person, the more likely it is they are not going to appear.”

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  11. 31. sij

    Democrat José Garza has received the endorsement of Elizabeth Warren for Travis County, Texas district attorney. Like many reform candidates across the country, Garza has pledged to end cash bail and take on racial inequities in the criminal legal system.

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  12. 31. sij

    Media reports identifying criminal suspects as “homeless” reinforce the narrative that people experiencing homelessness are threats to public safety—"a common right-wing canard used to justify virulently anti-homeless policies.”

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  13. 31. sij

    Time and time again, the War on Drugs leads to the same results. “Just like crack cocaine, those who will lose under the fentanyl policies currently being advanced in Congress are Black and Brown people,” the ACLU's Kanya Bennett told The Appeal.

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  14. 31. sij

    Data shows that three-quarters of those sentenced for fentanyl trafficking are Black or Latinx—even though research available about the demographics of people who sell drugs shows that white people are more likely to do so than Black or Latinx people.

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    A coalition of advocates expressed similar concerns in a letter to House leadership earlier this week, warning that the bill would "exacerbate already disturbing trends in federal drug prosecutions and incarceration levels."

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  16. 31. sij

    Rep. Ayanna Pressley criticized the bill's criminalization of people who are not trafficking fentanyl and who need treatment, not prison terms. “We must have a deliberate conversation abou...the mandatory minimums embedded in this bill.”

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  17. 31. sij

    Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who voted no, took to the House floor to remind her colleagues of the bill's unfair sentencing consequences. “We should not forget that over 78 percent of people charged with a fentanyl trafficking offense are people of color.”

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  18. 31. sij

    On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to extend the Drug Enforcement Administration’s ban on fentanyl—a proposal that harm reduction advocates say is misguided and regressive, and perpetuates the ineffective, racist war on drugs.

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  19. 31. sij

    Joe Kennedy III is casting himself as a progressive challenger to Democratic senator Ed Markey in Massachusetts. But his support for criminal justice reform is seemingly at odds with his work for one of the state’s most ardently anti-reform prosecutors.

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  20. 31. sij

    Advocates in Alabama celebrate the partial closure of the notorious Holman Correctional Facility, but condemn the state’s decisionmaking process. "Prisons should be closed. But the reason to close prisons is because their occupants have been set free.”

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