POST: The Crime Report: Your criminal justice network: December 8, 2023; By Audrey Nielsen and Zoltan Lucas;
GIST: "Today we bring you the unfortunate news that The Crime Report at the Center for Media Crime and Justice will be shutting down, effective December 31, 2023.
After careful consideration and deliberation, John Jay College has made the difficult decision to close The Crime Report. This decision, driven by financial constraints, comes after 15 years of providing a platform for thoughtful and accurate criminal justice journalism.
We want to express our deepest gratitude for your support and contributions, which have played a crucial role in influencing the national conversation on criminal justice issues and helped us to highlight quality journalism in this niche across the country.
For members: throughout December, we will be issuing prorated refunds for subscriptions that extend into 2024. Members impacted will receive additional emails about this process and can contact admin@thecrimereport.org with any questions.
The Crime Report will continue operating through the end of the year, and we are actively working with our partners at the college to secure free and accessible online archives for 2024 onward. We will keep you updated on that progress.
The Justice Digest will continue to publish through Dec 31, 2023, along with a handful of pending projects we hope that you’ll enjoy.
In the meantime, we invite you to join us in celebrating the rich history of our community and the impact it has had on criminal justice journalism.
As we say goodbye we'd like to recommend a few news publications that excel in reporting on criminal justice issues and whose work we have highlighted in the past. Here are just a few of our team’s favorites across the spectrum:
- The Marshall Project
- Crime and Justice News from Arizona State University and the National Criminal Justice Association
- The Prison Journalism Project
- The Trace
- The New York Law Journal and the larger team at Law.com
- The Appeal
- Injustice Watch
- The criminal justice beat at newsrooms like the Texas Tribune, The City, Houston Chronicle, Propublica and others.
- And the essential local work of countless nonprofit newsroom members of the Institute for Nonprofit News network.
We’ll continue to share work from outlets like these through the end of December, and we encourage you to follow diligent reporting on the criminal justice system and related issues wherever it is published and the work of our occasional and regular contributors wherever they go next.
Thank you for being a part of The Crime Report community.
Sincerely,
Audrey Nielsen and Zoltan Lucas
The Crime Report Interim Editorial Team
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| PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog; |
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/47049136857587929
FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices.
Lawyer Radha Natarajan;
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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YET ANOTHER FINAL WORD:
David Hammond, one of Broadwater's attorneys who sought his exoneration, told the Syracuse Post-Standard, "Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it's the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.
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