Nestled behind Mill Hill Park, just west of Nantucket Cottage Hospital, is the island’s Historic Coloured Cemetery.

Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal handed down an interesting ruling late last week in Crist v. Florida, No. 5D2022-2966 (5th App. Fla. Jan. 10, 2025) ( available here ). This press piece ...

Youngjae Lee (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Is Prison Abolitionism Self-Defeating? (Criminal Law and Philosophy, 0[10.1007/s11572-024-09743-6]) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Essay ...

Alexander Afnan (Georgetown University Law Centre - Georgetown University Law Centre) has posted An Abolitionist Vision: Reclaiming Public Safety from a Culture of Violence on SSRN. Here is the ...

A RARE Wedgwood Jasperware medallion is set to go under the hammer. The medallion, created by Josiah Wedgwood in 1787, is expected to fetch between £1,200 and £1,800 at the fine art sale on Wednesday, ...

A new book is celebrating the life of one of Ohio’s earliest and most active conductors along the Underground Railroad: ...

I was distressed to learn about the history of slavery in our local area in the article ”Tracing slavery’s stain” [Gazette, ...

An insight into why we might privilege social justice, over criminal justice Prison does not only impact and harm those who are directly locked up; prisons affect all of us. Yet many of us don’t ...

This headstone commemorates Civil War veteran George Washington, who is buried in the Clinton Cemetery, 20 miles southwest of Lawrence. (Frank Barthell) In the first part of this series, I ...