Chandra Bozelko
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Hulu's Sarah Lawrence 'Cult' Series Omits Bernard Kerik's Creepy History
Hulu’s three-part documentary series Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult of Sarah Lawrence is getting a lot of attention — but perhaps not the right kind. → Read More
Musk Is Finding Out Why Opinion Run Rampant Will Cost Him Billions
Last week we learned that Twitter has only 290,000 paying subscribers worldwide, making the platform's projected annual revenue $28 million, far short of the $3 billion free speech maximalist Elon Musk planned on. → Read More
Smuggled Photos Depict Starvation Diet Inflicted On Alabama Prisoners
The human rights abuses perpetrated by the Alabama Department of Corrections are as simple as sickeningly inadequate food -- and they are a disgrace to the United States. → Read More
Behind Anti-Slavery Ballot Measures, Prison Labor Isn't So Simple
On November 8, voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont will decide if they’ll strip their state constitutions of language that allows slavery in cases of a criminal conviction. Nineteen states have constitutions that permit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment. → Read More
Why Adnan Syed's Release Is Good News For Him
Judge Melissa M. Phinn of Baltimore City Circuit Court freed Adnan Syed, the subject of Chicago public radio station WBEZ’s hit true crime podcast, Serial, on September 19, 2022. It’s a very, very good thing that Syed walked free and went home. → Read More
It's Time To Stop Gouging And Grifting Millions Off Prisoners' Phone Calls
For years, prison phone company Global Tel*Link or GTL would empty customers’ prepaid accounts for calls from prison if they hadn’t used them for anywhere from 90 to 180 days. → Read More
Who Smuggles Drugs And Weapons Into Prisons? It's An Inside Job
Doctors at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York pronounced Michael Nieves, a 40 year old detainee on Rikers Island, dead on August 31, 2022. Nieves had been suspended between life and death since an ambulance brought him from the New York City jail days before. → Read More
For Prisoners, The Benefit Of Higher Education Is Both Enormous And Intangible
For Prisoners, The Benefit Of Higher Education Is Both Enormous And Intangible → Read More
MAGA Isn't Just A Cult
The aftermath of the August 8, 2022 search of the Mar-a-Lago club, former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, isn’t the first showdown between the FBI and a cult leader. → Read More
Despite 'Reforms,' The Torture Of Solitary Confinement Persists Unabated
Albert Woodfox passed away on August 4, 2022. In what’s believed to be the record for the longest stint in solitary in American history, Woodfox spent approximately 43 years alone in a 6-by-9-foot cell in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. → Read More
How Conservative 'Reform' Literally Cut Off A Texas Prisoner's Right Arm
Denton County, Texas is home to about 941,647 people and sports five separate criminal courts. That excludes civil actions and leaves one criminal court for every 188,329 people. Denton County Commissioners expect business to be brisk. → Read More
How Idaho Entrapped An Ex-Offender Into Voting Illegally
Laurie Erickson just came home from the Ada County Jail in Boise, Idaho. → Read More
Why That 'Miranda' Warning Matters So Much Less Than You Think
The United States Supreme Court decision in "Vega v. Tekoh," released on June 23, worries many constitutional rights experts. Once the Clerk of the Court released the opinion, the digital town square grew rife with nervous energy over the fate of the "Miranda" warning. → Read More
If There's A Crime Wave, That May Well Be Trump's Fault Too
On June 8, San Francisco voters recalled the city’s most recently elected district attorney, Chesa Boudin, because of perceptions of rising crime in the city. Two days later, the public hearings of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol began. → Read More
The Corruption That John Durham Ignores In His Own Backyard
The way land records work is pretty simple. Owners file a deed in the city, county or town’s clerk’s office and the deed states that the first owner, or grantor, is conveying the property to the new owner or grantee. Usually the new deed lists the page and volume number of the first owner’s deed. Th → Read More
That Alabama Prison Jailbreak May Be A Story Of Rape, Not Escape
Each day, updates reveal even more about the 11 day jailbreak involving Lauderdale County, Alabama Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White and her incarcerated lover, Casey White. → Read More
For Mothers And Families, We Must Expand Clemency Now
Phyllis Powell of Ocala, Florida is looking for work. She cleans houses and has been for 54 years despite severe scoliosis. But she needs to take on more now, at age 74, because she can’t pay her bills anymore. She spends at least $450 a month supporting her incarcerated son Steven. → Read More
How America Made The Death Penalty Into A Rigged And Barbaric Game
The “War of Currents” started just as any public battle does. Legendary inventors Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse were selling their own electrical systems around the country in a typical commercial competition. → Read More
Prosecutor Robbed Lucio Of The Most Compelling Evidence To Defend Her Life
The absence of a disciplinary record was one of the few positives Lucio could have presented to the jury because trauma and poverty consumed so many opportunities for her. → Read More
Why The Legal Strategy To Save Melissa Lucio Is Flawed
The criminal legal system values finality over accuracy. It’s better to be done than definite. That’s why re-litigating the same issues doesn’t work - if it’s even allowed. → Read More