This group will explore the progress and impediments in the ongoing process in the USA to keep the Justice system evolving towards greater and more transparent justice.
News, cases, issues, individual injustice campaigns too but without going overboard with exclusive and repetitious advocacy for a particular prisoner.
I will try and link in past articles that are representative and do a regular update on general injustice news... and hopefully more people will want to join in... I don't want a one man band group... this is a big topic.
- Erosion of liberties, rights & constitutional protections leading to wrongful convictions
- highlighting individual cases in context with the wider context of the issues involved
- weakening Miranda
- Drug law property seizure misuses
- Patriot Act complications - Habeas Corpus suspensions
- DNA testing post conviction
- Appeals process
- and so much more
So we will see how it goes - all new groups are an experiment and time will tell which way it all goes.
I do have one caveat... so expanding on the mention at the top:
Advocacy, particular for specific individuals while important, should mostly not be the main focus for diaries here. When they illustrate a particular problem and efforts to fix them systemically to not only right a wrong but make them less likely in the future. In other words turning this into an advocacy group for a personally important crusade should be avoided (Without naming names, there are particular cases that have highly motivated activist supporters.. and without pre-judging the validity of their efforts they should exercise restraint) So linking to web sites for a cause with more info and highlighting elements of the case as part of a wider exploration of the issues at stake along with other cases is fine but repeat harping again and again about a single case might not be useful.