In early December 2020, Governor Kelly’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice released its initial report on “Policing and Law Enforcement in Kansas.” The report contained some solid recommendations aimed at improving law enforcement interactions with the communities they are sworn to protect.
January 15, 2021
If you passed me on the street, you wouldn’t assume I was an ex-convict. In fact, once people get to know me, and find out I spent almost six years in prison, they are shocked.
January 15, 2021The law is clear: Every person charged with a crime in America has the right to effective counsel, but for two, Wyandotte County men, this unequivocal right rang hollow.
December 10, 2020
Near the end of the book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, author and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson encounters a woman he had ofte
December 10, 2020If Kansas were a country, its incarceration rate would be second only to that of the U.S.1 Kansas faces a significant overcrowding issue in its prisons.
December 12, 2019
The more that citizens participate in a democracy, the stronger that democracy becomes.
December 13, 2018