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    Adeshina Emmanuel

    Adeshina Emmanuel

    Adeshina was Injustice Watch's editor-in-chief from 2020 to 2022. He was born and raised in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side by an African-American mother and Nigerian father and studied journalism at Loyola University Chicago. His work over the past decade has spanned hyperlocal and national reporting with a focus on race, class, and institutional injustice.

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    News

    Students and alums reveal racist culture at top Chicago private school

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | June 30, 2020

    Hundreds of stories of racism, xenophobia, and abuse at the Latin School of Chicago have surfaced via an anonymous Instagram account, Latin Survivors.

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    Dash cam video

    Analysis: The thing about police unions

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | June 19, 2020

    Most unions don’t aggressively shield their members from accountability for murder. Police unions are another story.

    Alabama Prison Crisis

    Alabama prison death highlights pattern of officials promoting bad bosses

    By Adeshina Emmanuel and Connor Echols | May 31, 2020

    Billy Smith’s 2017 death highlighted broader problems at Elmore Correctional Facility, an overcrowded and understaffed prison with a history of abusive, neglectful managers.

    Alabama Prison Crisis

    ‘They told me he belonged to the state’: Slain Alabama prisoner’s mother kept in dark as her son lay dying

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | March 4, 2020

    Her experience echoes other troubling accounts about how Alabama prison officials handle critically injured or sick prisoners and their families during medical crises, and how little they reveal about those cases, even when inmates die.

    Alabama Prison Crisis

    Alabama prison officials have troubling history of issuing ‘do not resuscitate’ orders without consent

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | March 3, 2020

    The family of Marquette Cummings sued the Alabama prison system in 2015 after doctors took him off life support under instructions from a warden.

    Alabama Prison Crisis

    Secret report: Alabama guards allegedly beat, hog-tied, ignored inmate who later died

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | February 18, 2020

    Alabama investigators detailed the brutal events that led to Billy Smith’s death — including dousing him with water while unresponsive and a nurse who refused to treat him.

    News

    13 states have never exonerated a prisoner based on DNA evidence. Here’s why.

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | December 16, 2019

    Criminal justice experts offered several explanations for the 13 outliers, from missing evidence to stringent DNA testing laws and small prison populations.

    News

    St. Clair judge facing discipline over accusations he lied about contact with murder suspect

    By Adeshina Emmanuel | October 1, 2019

    A St. Clair County Circuit judge appeared before a state agency that has powers to discipline him, including removal from the bench, over charges he lied to police and to the investigating state agency over his contacts with a murder suspect. The judge contends it is all a political smear by his enemies.

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