By: Maria M. Alfaro For decades, possessing different forms of cocaine carried different kinds of sentencing. These sentencing differences were directly correlated with existing biases and inequalities in the U.S. prison and criminal justice system. Now, after 36 years, on December 16, 2022, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced new charging guidelines for crack cocaine […]

By: Pierre Craig Growing up in Dallas, Texas, nothing was more refreshing than a cold glass of water on a hot summer day. Unfortunately, simple pleasures like this may be taken for granted as one city in the Southern United States dealt with a combination of events that caused a severe water crisis that has […]

By: Timothy Mondloch The state of Arizona just killed a 76-year-old man for a crime he did not commit. Murray Hooper, 76, was sentenced to die in 1980 for the murder of two people.[1] In a trial marred by misconduct, Hooper was convicted despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime.[2] The only piece […]

By: Mackenzie Steele On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, leaving the country devastated and leading to a chain of human rights violations.[i] The human toll was approximately 316,000 deaths and approximately 1 million people were displaced.[ii] On January 6, 2011, multiple organizations joined together to file an emergency petition for precautionary […]