The trouble started when Hillside High School student Logan Lewis hopped off the stage and into the audience wielding a fake handgun. Gunshots sounded, and…
Posts tagged as “Criminal justice reform”
In this latest Reflections podcast, Lilly Clark talks about how the news media’s coverage of the courts system sometimes does more harm than good.…
Durham officials clashed with prison abolitionists Thursday night over a $30 million plan to more than double the size of the county’s juvenile detention center.…
It’s the fourth week of school and I’m crying in my editor’s well-lit office. It’s nothing serious — I cry frustratingly easily, often about things…
Traffic court is full. People sit chin in hand, eyelids heavy. Some stomp out of the courtroom, then return a few minutes later. Others grimace, checking…
On the eighth floor of the Durham courthouse, a beige tower that is home to the county’s criminal justice system, you will find the office…
‘He’ll push back’: T. Greg Doucette’s crusade against hypocrisy, police violence, and big government
‘He’ll push back’: T. Greg Doucette’s crusade against hypocrisy, police violence, and big government
It was five days after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, and T. Greg Doucette was mad. Doucette, a criminal defense and…
Allen Jones’ grandson was murdered last year in Burlington. The person charged with killing the 18-year-old and two others had multiple prior violent convictions, including…
When you walk into the square gray box that is the Durham County courthouse, you find yourself in a sterile administrative wasteland of brownish stone…
Adam Merritt caught a ride home from work and pulled up to find his house full of cops. Someone had tried to break into the…