Trending Topics

Media

In The News

Wrongful Convictions

Chicago City Council OKs $50 million settlement with 4 men wrongfully convicted of 1995 murders

"Charles, Larod, Lashawn, and Troshawn are among the scores of kids who the Chicago Police Department has targeted for false arrest and coercive interrogations over the years, leading to Chicago's reputation as the False Confession Capital of the country," said Alex Van Brunt, Johnson's attorney and the director of the Illinois office of the MacArthur Justice Center, in a statement after the approval of the settlement.

CBS News

Organization News

DOJ Asst. AG Named MacArthur Center’s VP, Legal Director

A deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has been named the first vice president and legal director of the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center.

Law360

Advocating for the Rights of the Incarcerated

He’s on Death Row for Murders. Prison Workers Say He Should Be Spared.

Brian Dorsey, who pleaded guilty to murder in the 2006 killings of Sarah and Ben Bonnie, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday unless Missouri’s governor or the courts step in.

The New York Times

Advocating for the Rights of the Incarcerated

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

“There is nothing innovative or interesting about this system of forced labor as punishment for what in so many instances is an issue of poverty or substance abuse,” said Cliff Johnson, director of the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi.

Associated Press

Holding Police and Prosecutors Accountable

Chicago will drop controversial ShotSpotter gunfire detection system

"Surveillance technology has a veneer of objectivity, but many of these systems do not work as advertised," said Jonathan Manes, an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center who spearheaded the study, in a 2021 statement. "High-tech tools can create a false justification for the broken status quo of policing and can end up exacerbating existing racial disparities."

NPR

Advocating for the Rights of the Incarcerated

Critics say Missouri’s parole practices are unconstitutional. A federal appeals court agrees

Amy Breihan, co-director of the Missouri office of the MacArthur Justice Center, a non-profit civil rights law firm which filed the lawsuit, said the decision was a win that will set the course for the department into the future. “The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is one of the most conservative courts in the country,” she said. “Viewed in that context, this is a big win.”

KCUR
See More

Latest Press Releases

See More

For media inquires please contact:

comms@macarthurjustice.org