by Press | May 31, 2019 | Newsclips
Courts cannot incarcerate people based solely on inability to pay court-imposed fines. The U.S. Constitution and Oklahoma Constitution prohibit jailing a person without first determining whether their failure to pay is willful.
by Press | May 15, 2019 | Newsclips
The criminal justice system let the real culprits — head coaches, colleges and NCAA — off the hook
by Press | May 8, 2019 | Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law applauds Sen. Kamala Harris’ introduction of the Ensuring Quality Access of Legal Defense of 2019 Act (the “EQUAL Defense Act”), a bill designed to promote the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of the...
by Press | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog
By The Criminal Justice Project When 33-year old Amanda Ackerson Feenstra—a working wife and mother of seven from Claremore, Oklahoma—pleaded guilty to false personation, forgery, identity theft, and conspiracy charges in 2015, the presiding judge ordered her to pay...
by Press | Mar 20, 2019 | Publications, Resources
Prison population rates, of which the United States has the highest in the world, are often cited as a defining feature of mass incarceration. Incarceration rates in local jails, however, are a lesser known but significant catalyst for mass incarceration. On any given...
