innocence
The presumption of innocence is a cornerstone of the American legal system and a right that should not be taken for granted.
Released from Jail into a World of Pandemia!! pt. 5
Let's see the last one of these I wrote just after we moved into the apartment in North Austin. Luckily during the February freeze we were fortunate that an old friend from San Antonio graced us with her presence to help with the move and thusly ended up stuck at our house and couch surfing for the duration of that freeze. I say luckily because life literally stopped for most the Southerners here since snow weather is obviously something they rarely ever have to deal with. Especially not 3 or 4 feet of snow and completely frozen bridges.
By Rachel (Rage) Schuyler5 years ago in Criminal
Why the Judge Rotenberg Center Should STOP Skin Shocks
The image above is a drawing of a student of the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, the JRC, getting painful skin shocks from a former employee there. Sadly, these images and stories are not made up. This is really happening. For decades, the JRC has used a device called the Graduated Electric Decelerator, or GED to send painful skin shocks to students with disabilities and students of color. This device has been deemed by The United Nations to be a torture device. This has a huge negative affect on the Autism community, because the JRC still continues to use harmful and hurtful shocks as behavioral modification. Survivors of this cruel practice will all testify against it, because the trauma they endured will stay with them forever.
By Sunny Dolen5 years ago in Criminal
Desperate Measures
“There is a fixed and pale composure upon the features; she seems sad and stricken down in spirit, yet the despair thus expressed is lightened by the patience of gentleness … The lips have that permanent meaning of imagination and sensibility which her suffering has not repressed … Her eyes, which we are told were remarkable for their vivacity, are swollen with weeping and lustreless, but beautifully tender and serene. In the whole mien there is a simplicity and dignity which, united with her exquisite loveliness and deep sorrow, are inexpressibly pathetic.” – Shelley on Guido Reni’s portrait of Beatrice Cenci
By Kathy Copeland Padden5 years ago in Criminal
Almost Hanged
I am 19 years old and on the trip of a lifetime to Tunisia. I know nothing about it before departure. I have signed up for this Spring Break excursion with my study abroad program in Spain. If I have been break dancer on a stage of ballerinas as an American in Spain, I am now about to break dance my way onto a stage of soldiers.
By Heather Lopez5 years ago in Criminal
Justice Rising Part Four
She didn't need redemption. She had done nothing wrong but trust the system she once championed. Now the people who once were friends were becoming part of the problem. Two years ago, everyone adored her. She hadn't been able to get anyone to speak to her in two years that had ever known. She hadn't been in jail or a hospital, she had been victimized by the protectors. She held on to the world she knew, where crime got investigated by police officers, the bad people went to jail and victims got more than a piece of paper with a police report number on it.
By Justice for All5 years ago in Criminal
Black Cadillac Predator
Riding by myself, I felt so free that sunny spring day in 1969. I didn't have to endure the twenty-minute ride on the hot, smelly bus with the screaming immature children. I was above that. In a few weeks, I would be graduating from grade eight. I was practically an adult! I had convinced my mother that I should be allowed to bike to and from school by promising that I would always take the quiet old road instead of the new highway 59.
By Mary Haynes5 years ago in Criminal
