Injustice Watch
网页2024年8月21日 · Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices and provide our community with the information and resources needed to hold power to account. …
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网页2024年8月21日 · Decades of courts data, 2.3M records analyzed to reveal unfair system. To examine the link between dangerous building disrepair and evictions in Chicago, Injustice Watch analyzed roughly 1.9 million code violations, 60,000 administrative court dockets, 300,000 eviction court dockets, and 43,000 housing court …
Our Mission - Injustice Watch
网页Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices and provide our community with the perspectives, information, and resources needed to hold power to account.
Criminal Courts - Injustice Watch
网页2024年4月18日 · Former Chicago Citi VP sentenced to 30 months for swindling $1.5 million from older clients. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly slammed Helen Caldwell for violating her position of trust, and ordered her to report in June to begin serving her sentence. Her case was featured last year in the Injustice Watch series Exploited Elders.
Our Staff - Injustice Watch
网页Maya Dukmasova Senior Reporter Maya Dukmasova reports on judges, prisons, and the courts. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2021, Maya was a senior writer at the Chicago Reader, where she produced award-winning long-form features and investigative stories, as well as profiles, film reviews, and essays on a wide range of topics.
Police - Injustice Watch
网页2024年1月8日 · Promised City Hall hearings on U visa failures never happened. Injustice Watch revealed in December how Chicago police denied hundreds of U visa certifications from undocumented crime victims. More than half of the city council called for accountability and new transparency rules, but the measures never passed. by …
Judicial Elections - Injustice Watch
网页2024年4月11日 · The next judicial elections in Illinois will take place on November 5, 2024. In Cook County, 78 judges will be running to retain their seats on the bench. Injustice Watch’s judicial election guide for the 2024 general election will be out in early October. Scroll down to learn more about the upcoming judicial races, read original reporting ...
Jury trials are disappearing. Here's why. | Injustice Watch
网页2021年2月17日 · Mandatory Minimum Sentences. In the federal criminal justice system, fewer than 2% of cases went to trial in the 12-month period ending in March 2020, the most recent for which data from the federal judiciary is available. Fifty percent of judges and 85% percent of defense attorneys surveyed by Diamond and Salerno said …
Consequences of Over 200,000 People Serving Life in U.S. Prisons
网页2023年12月5日 · People 55 years old and older, who run a higher risk of serious complications and death from Covid-19, make up 12% of the state prison populations but 30% of people serving life, the study found. In 2020, 61,417 people older than age 55 were serving a life sentence, according to the study. Prisons …
Impact - Injustice Watch
网页Injustice Watch strives to do journalism that positively impacts our community. Our work often leads to real and measurable change. We track the impact of our work in many forms, including legislation and policies to address problems we’ve identified through our reporting, corrective actions after our work exposes wrongdoing, community engagement around a topic we’ve covered, and positive ...
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