On July 12, 1995, Lamar Johnson’s future hopes were shattered as a judge doomed him to live out his days surrounded by the grim walls of a Missouri prison. Convicted of “first-degree murder and armed criminal action” (National Registry of Exonerations), Johnson spent twenty-eight years in prison, despite the fact that the eyewitness testimony introduced in his case was unreliable in addition to him having had an alibi. Johnson was arrested for allegedly shooting a drug dealer

Restricting the latitude to which law enforcement may detain citizens through selective profiling is an essential necessity that fortifies the safety of transgender people in concern to policing— but the social impressions made by systemic legislation still leave behind an uncertain legacy of collective stigma in the country, and leaves all matters of which that has influence over unaccounted for. The system of American policing tragically sustains precedents of injustice wit

Although many may think otherwise, the amount of education given to a person can have a direct affect on their future in the criminal justice system. Some students and even teachers, for instance, have developed a stereotype that the pupils who are subject to below average grade percentages are the same ones with behavioral issues. Is this stereotype just a stereotype, or is it true? Does the absence of education affect misbehavioral and incarceration rates? The answer to thi