Injustice Watch
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Injustice Watch is the only newsroom in Cook County dedicated to reporting on the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices and provide our community with the information and resources needed to hold power to account. As a nonprofit newsroom, our work is made possible by ...
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WEBAug 21, 2024 · Decades of courts data, 2.3M records analyzed to reveal unfair system. To examine the link between dangerous building disrepair and evictions in Chicago, Injustice Watch analyzed roughly 1.9 million code violations, 60,000 administrative court dockets, 300,000 eviction court dockets, and 43,000 housing court …
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WEBInjustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system. Our goal is one of public service: to listen to and center people affected by institutional injustices and provide our community with the perspectives, information, and resources needed to hold power to account.
Criminal Courts - Injustice Watch
WEBApr 18, 2024 · Former Chicago Citi VP sentenced to 30 months for swindling $1.5 million from older clients. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly slammed Helen Caldwell for violating her position of trust, and ordered her to report in June to begin serving her sentence. Her case was featured last year in the Injustice Watch series Exploited Elders.
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WEBAug 7, 2024 · Decades of courts data, 2.3M records analyzed to reveal unfair system. To examine the link between dangerous building disrepair and evictions in Chicago, Injustice Watch analyzed roughly 1.9 million code violations, 60,000 administrative court dockets, 300,000 eviction court dockets, and 43,000 housing court …
Housing - Injustice Watch
WEBJan 8, 2024 · by Alejandra Cancino, Maya Dukmasova, Forest Gregg and Alex Richards August 7, 2024. An Injustice Watch investigation found thousands of lower-income renters in Chicago are trapped in unsafe buildings, forced to pay rising rents, even as many landlords are allowed to shirk their responsibilities to …
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WEBMaya Dukmasova Senior Reporter Maya Dukmasova reports on judges, prisons, and the courts. Before joining Injustice Watch in 2021, Maya was a senior writer at the Chicago Reader, where she produced award-winning long-form features and investigative stories, as well as profiles, film reviews, and essays on a wide range of topics.
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WEBJan 8, 2024 · Promised City Hall hearings on U visa failures never happened. Injustice Watch revealed in December how Chicago police denied hundreds of U visa certifications from undocumented crime victims. More than half of the city council called for accountability and new transparency rules, but the measures never passed. by …
Jury trials are disappearing. Here's why. | Injustice Watch
WEBFeb 17, 2021 · Mandatory Minimum Sentences. In the federal criminal justice system, fewer than 2% of cases went to trial in the 12-month period ending in March 2020, the most recent for which data from the federal judiciary is available. Fifty percent of judges and 85% percent of defense attorneys surveyed by Diamond and …
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WEBInjustice Watch strives to do journalism that positively impacts our community. Our work often leads to real and measurable change. We track the impact of our work in many forms, including legislation and policies to address problems we’ve identified through our reporting, corrective actions after our work exposes wrongdoing, community engagement around a topic we’ve covered, and positive ...