In Cuyahoga County, voting patterns have resulted in mostly White judges deciding the fate of mostly Black criminal defendants. Cuyahoga County’s voting patterns have resulted in mostly White judges deciding the guilt or innocence of the county’s mostly Black criminal...
Originally published in the New York Times Magazine Twenty years ago, Judy Bolden served 18 months in a Florida prison. She has been free ever since, but she is still barred from voting by the state until she pays all court fines and fees associated with her...