On a 90-degree weekend this month, Theophalis “Binky Bilal” Wilson moved into his first apartment since he was a teenager. He couldn’t afford movers, so he and a few friends carted his possessions across the city in sweaty repeat trips.Wilson was exonerated in 2020 after 28 years in prison for a 1989 triple murder. He left prison with his legal files and little else. Pennsylvania is the .
Despite pleas from prosecutors, probation officers , and police in two states to keep convicted killer Keith Gibson locked up, a Delaware judge authorized the.
It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a standstill. Instead of serving a jail sentence, he stayed at home, his case deferred more than a year, as courts closed and…
By WEIHUA LI, BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press
It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a standstill.
Instead of serving a jail sentence, he stayed at home, his case deferred more than a year, as courts closed and jails nationwide dramatically reduced their populations to stop the spread of COVID-19.
But the numbers have begun creeping up again as courts are back in session and the world begins returning to a modified version of normal. It’s worrying criminal justice reformers who argue that the past year proved there is no need to keep so many people locked up in the U.S.