by Julia Keleher | Nov 11, 2022 | Blog, Criminal Justice Reform, Julia Keleher
I hope most Americans don’t learn about the US Constitution, and its Amendments, the way I did. My crash course in understanding my rights as an American citizen began when I was indicted for the first time in July of 2019. For the next 30 months, I struggled to...
by Julia Keleher | Nov 8, 2022 | Blog, Criminal Justice Reform, Julia Keleher
In some states, those with a felony conviction are ineligible to vote. Voting rights are not protected explicitly in the US Constitution, although several Amendments safeguard certain aspects of voting rights. Whether or not you lose your right to vote is determined...
by Julia Keleher | Sep 14, 2022 | Blog, Criminal Justice Reform, Julia Keleher
I served five and a half months in Federal Prison Camp Alderson, as Inmate 35538-016. I was there from February through July – which means I experienced the end of winter, spring and most of summer. Alderson is set in the mountains of West Virginia. The complex ,...
by Julia Keleher | Sep 8, 2022 | Blog, Criminal Justice Reform, Julia Keleher
Restoring Faith in Judicial Warrants On August 23, the New York Times reported that former police detective Kelly Goodlett mislead a judge who, based on the information she provided, authorized the no-knock search warrant. Those actions led to the execution of the...
by Julia Keleher | Aug 23, 2022 | Blog, Criminal Justice Reform, Julia Keleher
The New York Times reported on August 15, 2022 that Allen H. Weisselberg had reached an agreement with federal prosecutors to resolve his July 2021 indictment. The Times reported that the agreement would allow Weisselberg to “avoid a high-profile trial and spare him a...
by Julia Keleher | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog, Criminal Justice Reform, Julia Keleher
Many, if not all, of individuals who have served prison time for a misdemeanor or felony will tell you that their sentence doesn’t end upon release or at the end of supervision. The true sentence that accompanies a conviction extends throughout their entire lifetime....
