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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

MacArthur Justice Center Announces New Vice President and Legal Director

Former DOJ Official, Jonathan Smith, Joins the Team as the Organization's First Vice President and Legal Director.

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

He faces execution. His lawyers may have earned less than $4 an hour

“He says he wants to find a way to make people’s lives better to atone for what he’s done."– Megan Crane

Los Angeles Times

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

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

Supreme Court denies case involving prolonged confinement without exercise

Over the objections of its three liberal justices, the Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from a prisoner confined for years without the chance to exercise outside his cell.

The Washington Post

Liberal justices object as Supreme Court rejects prisoner’s exercise claim

"We are saddened to live in an era where imposing such cruelty — let alone on a person known to suffer from mental illness — is acceptable to any federal judge." — Daniel M. Greenfield

NBC News

How Long Without Outdoor Exercise Is Too Long for a Prisoner in Solitary?

“Exercise is a basic human need, and its long-term denial may constitute cruel and unusual punishment,” said prison officials, who also asserted three years was tolerable. The case could reach the Supreme Court.

The New York Times

The Supreme Court Should Have Heeded Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Wisdom

Punishment that causes durable impairments of the punished person’s brain surely violates the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment proscription of “cruel and unusual punishments.”

The Washington Post