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"Doing Time Without Committing a Crime," by Matthew Mangino, Creators Syndicate, January 09, 2024
"How Can We Better Understand Federal Sentencing Through Plea Agreements?," by Billy Sinclair, The Crime Report, September 20, 2023
"Most New Yorkers can’t contest wrongful convictions without DNA evidence. Exoneree Steve Lopez wants to change that," by Tandy Lau, New York Amsterdam News, June 22, 2023
"Plea Bargains Are a Tool of Racist Mass Incarceration," by Dan Canon, Truthout, January 29, 2023
"John Oliver Has Some Bad News About ‘Law & Order’," by Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, September 12, 2022
"Fixing Rikers requires hard work: Eradicate the trial penalty," by MartÃn Antonio Sabelli and Susan J. Walsh, New York Daily News, October 16, 2021
"‘Planning for Losing’: A Lesson on Justice Reform from Afghanistan," by Marc Levin, The Crime Report, September 16, 2021
"Has the Pandemic Killed Jury Trials?," by Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report, September 13, 2021
"Truth, Lies and Plea Bargaining," by Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report, July 22, 2021
"Candidates for Manhattan District Attorney on Ending the 'Trial Penalty'," by Anna Kaufman, Gotham Gazette, June 16, 2021
"Lawmakers have a chance to eradicate the trial penalty," by Susan J. Walsh and Norman L. Reimer, Albany Times Union, May 31, 2021
"Memo to Joe Biden: Add a Civilian Justice Corps to Your ‘New Deal’," by James Doyle, The Crime Report, April 16, 2021
"When Going To Trial Isn’t Worth It," by Toni Messina, Above the Law, April 15, 2021
"Opinion: How the trial penalty drives injustice," by Susan J. Walsh and Norman L. Reimer, New York Daily News, April 06, 2021
"Cash bail: 3 teenagers. 3 sets of alleged crimes. All treated differently. All in the same system.," by Adam Rogan, The Journal Times, April 02, 2021
