Adeshina Emmanuel is the editor-in-chief at Injustice Watch. 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. Adeshina is a former education reporter at Chalkbeat, a former investigative reporter at the Chicago Reporter, and a former neighborhood reporter at DNAinfo Chicago who worked on the breaking news wire at the Chicago Sun-Times before interning at the New York Times in 2012 at the start of his career. Adeshina's work has also been published by various local and national outlets, including the New York Times, the Chicago Reader, Ebony Magazine, In These Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Reports, the Washington Post, Parts Unknown, and the South Side Weekly.
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.
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 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.
Criminal justice experts offered several explanations for the 13 outliers, from missing evidence to stringent DNA testing laws and small prison populations.
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.