Monthly Archives: February 2010

This talk was given by Friends of Justice Director Alan Bean at a Restorative Justice Conference held at St. John the Apostle United Methodist Church, February 24th 2010. The headline in the local paper nearly knocked me off my chair: “Tulia’s streets … Continue reading →

This compelling story in the New York Times slipped past me.  I was on the road in Louisiana for eight days and didn’t have the luxury of surfing the net.  Non-DNA exoneration is becoming the primary focus of the criminal justice reform movement.   For … Continue reading →

This in-depth report in the New York Times Magazine asks just how Christian America’s founding fathers really were.  It’s an important question in the Lone Star State where the religious right is pushing the idea that America is a Christian nation … Continue reading →

As the article posted below suggests, the ”Flowers bill” designed to expand the jury pool from a single county to a five-county district has passed by a comfortable margin.   There are several pertinent facts this article mention.   First, among white senators the bill passed 33-4; … Continue reading →