Julius Jones is Still at Risk of Execution Despite a Parole Board Twice Suggesting He May Be Innocent

Constitutional Rights, Death Penalty, Incarceration, Prisons

Julius Jones was sentenced to death after the July 28, 1999, murder of Paul Howell. He is scheduled to die November 18 for a murder that he, for decades, maintained he did not commit. A Pardon and Parole Board has recommended twice that Jones’ death sentence be commuted to life with possibility of parole. However,…

Covid-19 and Idaho’s Prisons

Covid-19, Incarceration

We are seeing and hearing that most people confined to an institution at the moment have been exposed to the novel coronavirus or have or are recovered from Covid-19. Idaho’s institutions are unable to provide social distancing, placing both incarcerated people and the community-at-large at risk. Limiting the spread of COVID-19 in justice institutions –…