Mary Gay Scanlon: “Every day some of our colleagues seem to be trying to prove the legal maxim that if you don't have the law on your side…”

Why are we jailing, essentially, people who are not a danger to our communities, who are in many cases contributing members to our economy and our communities, folks who are employed and are paying taxes? Why are these folks being put in a…

We all enjoy the extra hour or so of sunlight in the summer, but when people are considering this, they need to consider the extra hours of darkness in the winter.

It makes it difficult to … follow up on issues about food and medical care if you can’t talk to people who are impacted.

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.