Adam Wisnieski
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Connecticut, United States
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Access Denied: The Digital Crisis in Prisons
As prison law libraries go digital, many inmates are encountering significant barriers to getting the materials they need to pursue their cases. TCR investigates a barrier to justice that has received little attention. → Read More
Whatever Happened to National Reentry Week?
Barack Obama inaugurated it last April to mark the emerging bipartisan consensus that the incarcerated deserve a “second chance.” But our investigation suggests that hardliners in the Trump administration have shrugged it off. → Read More
Offender Meets Victim: A ‘Survivor-Centered’ Approach to Violent Crime
Can face-to-face encounters between offenders and the people they hurt make a difference? An innovative strategy in Brooklyn, NY and several other cities is testing the idea that you can reduce incarceration and still reduce violent crime. → Read More
Trump On Crime: Tough Talk, Few Specifics
Photo by Gary Skidmore via Flickr Almost a year ago, the Brennan Center for Justice asked potential presidential candidates what they thought needed to change in America’s criminal justice system. Fifteen public figures responded. They included Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, Chri... → Read More
A 'Draconian' System Where the Innocent Plead Guilty
The U.S. criminal justice system is broken and needs to be fixed is a message you rarely hear from a well-respected senior federal judge. But that’s exactly what Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York detailed during a keynote address at the 11th Annual Harry Frank Guggenhei... → Read More
Your Assets Are Mine
Is the centuries-old practice of seizing property allegedly connected with a crime headed for a major shakeup in the U.S. this year? Reform advocates on the left and right were encouraged by the temporary suspension last month of payments to local law enforcement agencies that participate in the... → Read More
A Muckraker for Our Times: John Oliver
Last month, in one of the final episodes of the second season of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver told his audience they deserved some ice cream. “This year, we’ve covered many depressing aspects of our criminal justice system,” he said. “From how mandatory minimum sen... → Read More
Going After ‘Legal Corruption’
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a longtime powerhouse of New York politics, was convicted of fraud and extortion last week. But shortly after the jury unanimously found him guilty on all seven counts of fraud and extortion, one juror admitted she still didn’t understand th... → Read More
‘Fairy Tales’ & Drugs in America’s Courtrooms
The arrest and conviction of Dennis Hardee, of Philadelphia, was nothing unusual in the annals of America’s Drug War. In 2013, he was convicted of taking part in a conspiracy to rob a cocaine stash house and then sell the proceeds. As it happened, there was also nothing unusual in the fact... → Read More
‘Outrageous Government Conduct’
The drugs were not real. The sentence was. Emanuel Gerardo Cota-Ruiz, a 36-year-old Mexican immigrant living in Arizona, was sentenced in 2013 to ten years in prison for conspiring to rob a cocaine stash house. Cota-Ruiz had no previous criminal history. He installed drywall. But, as his lawyer... → Read More
A Special Subset of Bronx Voters
A small group of voters in a section of the Bronx will get to in two of the most-watched Democratic primaries of 2014 New York politics. → Read More
A Special Subset of Bronx Voters
A small group of voters in a section of the Bronx will get to in two of the most-watched Democratic primaries of 2014 New York politics. → Read More
Idle Time: New York Car Owners in for a Shift
Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez (William Alitriste) It's a New York City ritual: hurry up and wait. Across the city, car owners rush to move their vehicles and then, they wait.... → Read More
The Horses of New York City: Central Park Carriages & NYPD Mounted
While there is a great deal of controversy over the continued use of horses to pull carriages in New York City's Central Park, there is far less outcry regarding the use of horses by the NYPD. Gotham Gazette examines the similarities and differences. → Read More
Everything Dot NYC
New York City has begun releasing .nyc domain names. The de Blasio administration is more or less following the path set by the Bloomberg administration, which is troubling to some. It is unknown how the rollout will go, considering New York is the first city to unleash its own top level domain name. → Read More