Martin and Cy: Free at last! Thank God Almighty, they’re free at last! I must admit that Dr. Martin Luther King didn’t make much of an impact on my life while he was alive. Sure, I remember the I Have a Dream...
Some people in Washington DC didn’t have a dad like mine! It was early in the 1940s. A little boy named Doug Tjapkes went down the street to play with his friends Billy and Chucky. Playing in the...
Second chances for juvie lifers? Elusive! I blame it on prosecutors! Here’s what’s going on. The U.S. Supreme Court, in 2012 and 2016, ruled that we may not sentence juveniles to ...
Second chances for juvie lifers? Elusive! I blame it on prosecutors! Here’s what’s going on. The U.S. Supreme Court, in 2012 and 2016, ruled that we may not sentence juveniles to ...
2021: Year of burying the hatchet? While fighting to free Maurice Carter, at the turn of the century, I learned some important lessons about forgiveness. I’ll not forget wh...
Resolved: That 2021 will be The Year of the Prisoner! “New Year's Day ... now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them ...
Too many prosecutors on the bench! Prosecutors have dominated the bench for too long. We need more public defenders to become judges. Headline, Business Insider. Like a l...
Coal in Christmas stockings! Many prisoners and their families received coal in their Christmas stockings this year. You probably won’t hear a lot of complaining. The...
Our gift to you: A Christmas Parable Louis Cassels was one of my favorite news writers. A Washington Correspondent for UPI for many years, he later became its national religi...