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WEBSep 20, 2024 — Eighteen people died at the jail last year, and half of the deaths featured examples of inadequate supervision and medical care, an Injustice Watch investigation found. Sheriff Tom Dart blames detainees overdosing on drug-laced paper and says he’s addressed the problem, but experts say there’s a renewed need for oversight.
Judicial Elections - Injustice Watch
WEBApr 11, 2024 — The next judicial elections in Illinois will take place on November 5, 2024. Injustice Watch’s judicial election guide for the 2024 general election will be out Oct. 8. In Cook County, 77 judges are running to retain their seats on the bench. Scroll down to learn more about the upcoming judicial races, read original reporting from our team ...
Darlie Lynn Routier: Remains in prison, awaiting long-overdue …
WEBOct 29, 2019 — Responding to Darlie Lynn Routier’s frantic 911 call from her Dallas County home in 1996, police found her two sons, Devon Routier, 6, and Damon Routier, 5, dying of stab wounds. There were knife wounds to Routier’s neck, forearm and shoulder. A broken wine glass lay on the ground, and there was a torn window screen in the garage.
Jury trials are disappearing. Here's why. | Injustice Watch
WEBFeb 17, 2021 — Mandatory Minimum Sentences. In the federal criminal justice system, fewer than 2% of cases went to trial in the 12-month period ending in March 2020, the most recent for which data from the federal judiciary is available. Fifty percent of judges and 85% percent of defense attorneys surveyed by Diamond and …
Sonia Jacobs: Convicted Despite Gun Residue on Another Suspect
WEBNov 25, 2019 — This story is the seventeenth in a series, Unrequited Innocence, that looks at cases where people were sentenced to die and have not been exonerated despite significant evidence of innocence. Sonia Jacobs was the unusual case: a woman sentenced to death. Jacobs was convicted of the murder of a Florida state trooper and a visiting Canadian constable at a rest stop outside Miami in 1976; she was ...
Federal Circuit Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Injustice Watch
WEBMar 16, 2021 — On Monday, a federal appeals court dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by a Philadelphia police officer against Injustice Watch over a Facebook comment of his published in the Plain View Project, a database of police officers’ potentially problematic social media posts. The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by D …
Kary B. Mullis: A lament for the loss of a life that saved many
WEBAug 18, 2019 — More than a score of innocent men sentenced to death in 13 states have been exonerated and freed from prison in the last 26 years thanks to Kary Banks Mullis, who died this month at age 74 at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. Mullis was neither a lawyer nor an activist. Rather he was a biochemist, whose contribution to …
Court Administration | Injustice Watch
WEBJan 8, 2024 — Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices and provide our community with the information and resources needed to hold power to account. As a nonprofit newsroom, our work is made possible by ...
Appeals and Wrongful Convictions | Injustice Watch
WEBJan 30, 2024 — Appeals court affirms new trial for Burge torture survivor. The appeals court ruled that Jackie Wilson, who was convicted of the 1982 robbery and murder of two Chicago Police officers, was tortured into confessing and should received a new trial. by Jonah Newman December 10, 2019. Injustice Watch is the …
Health care in Illinois prisons is deficient: Report
WEBJan 8, 2024 — The report is the fourth filed by the monitor, Dr. John Raba, since November 2019 as part of the ongoing lawsuit over the quality of health care in Illinois prisons. A federal judge approved a consent decree in 2019 and appointed Raba, a former chief medical officer for the Cook County Health and Hospitals System, to oversee implementation of a ...
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