Rita Williams
@ritawill.bsky.social
Amplifier-in-Chief, Investigative Journalist | 🎙️ Founder of Clutch Justice 📢 Loud on behalf of the silenced. 🔥 Bringing snark, receipts, and stories they really don’t want told. Media Director, H3 Network 📧 hello@clutchjustice.com | clutchjustice.com
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Running from the Law, Suing the Law: How Kevin Lindke’s Frivolous Case Against Sheriff Mat King Will Fall Apart Well, here we are. It takes a certain kind of boldness, or recklessness, to sue the sheriff while running from the law. That’s exactly what happened when demolition contractor Kevin…
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Steve Murray, SCM, and the Killen Collapse: How a PPO Shadowed a Deadly Demolition On December 9, 2020, a tragic collapse occurred at the Killen Generating Station in Adams County, Ohio, during demolition prep. The catastrophe left two workers dead, others injured, and one worker’s body…
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Obstruction of Justice: The Favorite Tool of the Powerful Obstruction of justice isn’t just a line in the penal code. It’s essentially the duct tape of corruption; the quick fix politicians, prosecutors, and corporate execs slap over the truth when accountability comes knocking. And in America,…
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Florida DOC’s Legal Mail Clampdown: A Violation of Justice Florida’s prison system is erecting walls. Not just around facilities, but around incarcerated individual’s access to justice. The latest rule changes by the Florida Department of Corrections are stripping incarcerated individuals of their…
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Forgotten at the Prison Gates: How Florida’s Wakulla CI Punishes Families Who Visit Prisons don’t just punish the incarcerated; they feel the perverse need to punish their families, too. For elderly parents, disabled visitors, and loved ones trying to hold onto the thin thread of human connection,…
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When a Blog Does More Than the Badge: How Clutch Justice Helped Find a Missing Girl When 12-year-old Zohe Pierce went missing, Michigan State Police dragged their feet. Clutch Justice and community researchers stepped in — and a simple house photo helped crack the case.
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Politicians: If You Truly Cared About Families, You Would Stop Tearing Them Apart Through Incarceration We hear it every election season: “Family values.” Politicians line up at microphones to declare the family as the sacred cornerstone of society; the source of moral strength, social order, and…
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When Family Courts Fail: A Father’s Fight Against Judge Bakker’s Custody Rulings If I had a quarter for every case that comes my way about Judge Margaret Zuzich Bakker, I would be able to pay off my student loans and then some. Family court is supposed to protect children and ensure their best…
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When False Police Reports Become Weapons: How Retaliation Silences Advocates In America’s so-called justice system, truth is supposed to matter. But in reality, we’ve seen time and again how false police reports and fabricated claims are weaponized as tools of retaliation against those who dare to…
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The justice system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly how it was designed: to punish poverty, protect power, and profit from pain. #ClutchJustice #SystemicInjustice
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Governor Mike DeWine’s Utility Cash Pipeline (and Dave Yost’s Cleanup Act): How Big Energy Keeps Winning While Ohio’s Water Loses Today, we’re playing connect-the-dots. On one side: Ohio’s coal-ash ponds, questionable pipelines, and “don’t drink the tap” water vibes. On the other: campaign reports…
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The people most impacted by the system are the ones most likely to fight for change. That’s not irony. That’s resilience and it terrifies the powerful. #JusticeReform #ClutchJustice
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It’s Not The Load That Breaks You Down; It’s The Way You Carry It. On the surface, a day of celebration and a day of injustice may seem unrelated. But lived experience tells a different story; moments of personal struggle and broader calls for equality often intersect in powerful, unexpected ways.…
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Rodents on the Menu: Michigan DOC Serves Bran Cakes with Mouse Droppings When incarcerated people say the food is inhumane, Michigan’s Department of Corrections just proved them right…again. Reports have surfaced that breakfast inside multiple Michigan DOC facilities included high-fiber bran cakes…
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Poison in the Ground: Adams County Ohio’s Coal Ash Crisis at Killen Station When the smokestacks of Killen Station and J.M. Stuart Station stopped puffing in Adams County, Ohio, local leaders told residents to brace for job loss and tax revenue collapse. What they didn’t say was this: the real…
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Service, Not Sacrifice: Why Nonprofits Must Lead the Way on Living Wages I read an article recently discussing how the Meijer grocery empire had record profits, but their employees are getting busted for taking food that was going to be thrown away because they’re starving and struggling to make…
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Imagine nearly dying at work, only to have the company that almost killed you try to silence you in court. Welcome to corporate America. #WorkersRights #CorporateGreed
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Michigan AG, OIG Offices Targets Poverty Instead of Real Fraud: The Bridge Card Baked Goods Case In Saginaw, Michigan, a 32-year-old woman now faces felony charges for allegedly using her Bridge Card (the state’s SNAP benefit card) to purchase ingredients and then selling baked goods for income.…
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Follow the Money: How to Use TransparencyUSA to Spot Dirty Politicians We’ve all heard the saying: “Show me your budget and I’ll show you your values.” Well, when it comes to politicians, you don’t even need their budget. You just need their campaign finance records. It will tell you everything…
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Pack the Court: Stand With the Miller Family Against Adamo Group and SCM’s Bullying Once again, corporate law firms are trying to drag the Miller family through the mud, this time with a so-called “emergency motion” set for September 2, 2025, at 1:00 PM in Adams County Court. Let’s call this what…
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Every time they say “it’s about public safety,” what they really mean is: it’s about control. Safety would mean housing, healthcare, jobs. Control means cages. #PrisonReform #EndMassIncarceration
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6 Criminal Justice System Myths: The Misunderstood Reality of America’s System The criminal justice system in the United States is often viewed through the dramatized lens of popular media and a romanticized public perception. Movies, television shows, and even news stories frequently portray a…
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We’re Done Playing Nice: Join Clutch Justice and Write for the Revolution The system is rigged. We all know it. The question is: are you ready to do something about it, or are you content to watch injustice unfold from the sidelines while mainstream media serves up sanitized soundbites and…
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Barry County’s Jail Board Is a Massive Conflict of Interest Barry County, Michigan's Jail Board is officially a who's who of mass incarceration. ...Because nothing screams “public service” quite like stacking a jail committee with the very people who benefit from locking folks up. The Barry County…
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An Attorney Is Only as Good as the Judge They’re Working With We like to tell ourselves that justice is a matter of hiring the right lawyer. That if you find the “best in town,” justice will prevail. But here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud: an attorney is only as good as the judge…
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Clutch Q&A: Tyler Boyd on The Last Mile, Reentry, and Second Chances When it comes to criminal justice reform, few voices carry the weight of lived experience combined with professional leadership like Tyler Boyd. After navigating the challenges of incarceration and reentry himself, Tyler has…
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Clutch Q&A: Dr. Aaron T. Kinzel, From Prison to Professor Dr. Aaron T. Kinzel is a nationally recognized educator, researcher, and criminal justice reform advocate whose life embodies the power of transformation. Once incarcerated for more than a decade for a violent confrontation with law…
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You Don’t Need a PhD in Data to Hold Courts Accountable. You Just Need to Show Up. Nearly 800 court sessions in Kalamazoo County have been observed under a grant-funded pilot program but organizers say it’s still not enough for meaningful insight into how justice is (or isn’t) delivered. Don't be…
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Caring for Ourselves as Political Warfare: Reflections from Essie Justice Group’s Healing to Advocacy Cohort “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde That quote came up during my Essie Justice Group Healing to…
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Barry County’s Broken Math: Longer Sentences, More Crime, and the Price of Ignoring Mental Health Barry County is reeling. This year, court documents cited the County’s inability to address appeals in a its timely manner, requesting extensions to meet deadlines. Why? It’s been a record number year…
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Solving More Than Puzzles: The Prison Puzzle Project Is Quietly Reimagining Healing Behind Bars At first glance, it might sound trivial. Sudoku? Jigsaw puzzles? In prison? But when you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that the Prison Puzzle Project is part of something quietly radical; a…
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Buying the Bench? PAC Dollars, Energy Giants, and the New Adams County Judge When Adams County announced it would be adding a second Common Pleas Judge in 2027, the official story was about efficiency, backlog reduction, and improved access to justice. But behind the press releases and…
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Traverse City Judge Right to Halt Trial—But Michigan’s Mental Health System Still Failing Last week, a Traverse City judge made the legally correct call in ruling that the suspect in the tragic Walmart mass stabbing is not competent to stand trial. That decision wasn’t about politics. It was about…
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Buying Influence? Reminger Co., LPA’s PAC and the Judges Deciding Our Cases When Justice Meets Campaign Finance Most people assume a courtroom is the one place where money has no place — just the facts, the law, and a judge who weighs both fairly. But what happens when the very law firms arguing…
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Funny how prosecutors love extensions… right up until they miss one. Then suddenly it’s “oops.” Shouldn’t the same rules apply to both sides of the courtroom? #ProsecutorialMisconduct #EqualJustice
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Adamo Group, SCM Defense Blames Plaintiffs for Delays While Creating Their Own Roadblocks in the Miller Case Another motion, another attempt to spin. Last week, Adamo Group and SCM's defense filed its latest maneuver, trying to pin every problem in this case on The Millers. If you believed their…
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Protecting Your Digital Trail: Why OSINT Researchers and Justice Advocates Need NordVPN Note: NordVPN is a partner and sponsor. Thanks, NordVPN, for keeping the lights on! At Clutch Justice, we dig where others won’t. We track court filings buried in outdated databases, pull public records through…
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Kent County Jurors Demanding Hard Evidence Isn’t a Problem—It’s Progress MLIVE recently published an article that definitely raised an eyebrow. It featured Kent County Prosecutor Christopher Becker bemoaning that Jurors are demanding hard evidence, and driving up the number of murder mistrials…
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Nation Outside’s Seeds of Change 2025: Planting Hope After Prison, Cultivating Transformation for All When the system locks people away, it doesn’t just take years; it tries to take futures. But on September 25, 2025, in the heart of Detroit, those futures will be reclaimed. Nation Outside is…
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Court Watching the Miller Case: Why Community Support Matters Against Harassment and Stalking Every time I check the docket I'm a little more annoyed with the ridiculousness The Millers family have had to endure. The defendants in the Miller case have crossed the line from legal defense into…
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Translation: “justice” in Michigan used to come with a price tag if you didn’t speak English. Now the Supreme Court might actually end interpreter fees. About damn time. #LanguageAccess #JusticeSpeaks
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Kent County Prosecutor Accused of Denying Speedy Trials, Constitutional Rights Last week, I received a 14-page manifesto from multiple individuals housed at Kent County Jail around June 2025, many of them still incarcerated. The alleged violations are maddening. The US Constitution dictates that…
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Trump Executive Orders Threaten Cashless Bail and Constitutional Rights A Reuter article just dropped and took my stomach along with it. Today, August 25, 2025, President Trump announced two executive orders: Nationwide threats: Federal funding could be revoked from jurisdictions using cashless…
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A New Chapter: Clutch Justice Welcomes a New Sibling Clutch Justice has always been about more than reporting; it’s been about community, accountability, and truth-telling in spaces where silence once prevailed. Today, I’m excited to share a new chapter: I’ve joined the Hope Help Humor (H3)…
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No ATF Clearances, No Excuses: The Silverdome Demolition’s Missing Oversight When the Pontiac Silverdome was demolished in December 2017, the spectacle drew national headlines. But behind the dust and debris lies a troubling discovery: no ATF clearances were ever filed for either Adamo or SCM…
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Amy Bradley Is Missing: Netflix Doc Revives a Cruise Ship Tragedy — and an Urgent Call for Reform For 27 excruciating years, Amy Lynn Bradley has existed in the realm of what-ifs. The 23-year-old vanished without a trace from her family’s Royal Caribbean cruise just before sunrise on March 24,…
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How CCRSites.com’s Sitemap Opens a Window Into Hidden Hazards—and Why It Matters Being a tech nerd and an investigative journalist tends to pair well. And today, I am happy to report that one-two punch has yielded some important results in the ongoing Adamo, Ron Froh, SCM saga. EPA’s Coal…
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When corporations cut corners, workers die. When people call it out, they get gag orders. Guess who always gets protected? Spoiler: not the families. #Accountability #JusticeReform
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5 Powerful ChatGPT Prompts to Investigate Corruption in Your Community Community corruption isn’t always obvious. Sometimes it hides in closed-door meetings, questionable contracts, or a series of “coincidental” decisions that just don’t sit right. Whether you’re a concerned citizen, a journalist,…
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Kevin Lindke’s Harassment of Killen Disaster Survivor Exposes Toxic Corporate and Legal Culture When the Killen Generating Station collapsed in Adams County, Ohio, it left behind more than rubble. It left survivors and grieving families battling not only corporate negligence, but also a relentless…
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From Ash Ponds to the Ohio River: Gemini Engineering and Kingfisher Development’s Toxic Legacy at Killen When the Killen Generating Station collapsed, killing workers and drawing national headlines, most people thought the story was over. But behind the rubble and the press releases, the…
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Ron Froh’s Environmental Cleanup Scandal: Killen, Beckjord, and the Cancer Shadow Over Ohio When corporations cut corners on safety and the government looks the other way, communities don’t just get left behind; they get poisoned. That’s exactly what’s playing out in Adams County, Ohio, where…
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The justice system doesn’t just “make mistakes.” It destroys lives by design. The real question isn’t “how did this happen?” but “who benefits from keeping it this way?” #ClutchJustice #SystemicInjustice
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Why Social Capital Is the Missing Key to Successful Reentry After Incarceration Reentry after incarceration is more than a matter of paperwork, probation, and job applications. It’s about reconnecting with a world that often feels like it moved on without you. While policy debates tend to focus on…
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Breaking Barriers: Computer Basics for Reentry Reentry is hard enough without being left behind by technology. And all too often for returning citizens, even the simplest digital tasks, like sending an email, filling out an online job application, or spotting a scam, can feel like impossible…
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Shredded Hopes: When Michigan DOC Mailrooms Deny Incarcerated People Their Diplomas In Michigan, what should be a symbol of achievement is being reduced to copy paper. A diploma should denote hard work and a step toward a better future. For incarcerated individuals in Michigan, though, that symbol…
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Sponsored Post: Teaching My Kids to Outsmart Corruption (With Greenlight) If you haven't noticed, my days are spent knee-deep in corruption, misconduct, and the kind of systemic rot that most people would rather pretend doesn’t exist. Between launching an independent news desk, chasing down…
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No Investigation, No Crime: How Ionia County Abandoned Lois Laroe to Violence and Trauma Lois Laroe is more than a name or a headline. She’s a friend, a neighbor, an elder (a dirty word, as she often jokes), who’s suffered unspeakable trauma. Alongside the hail of explosions and gunfire from her…
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Oakland County’s Courtroom Circus: Take Down the Tent and Start Over When opposing counsel dares to talk about “protecting the integrity of the judiciary” in Oakland County, you almost have to laugh because if this is integrity, then the word has officially lost all meaning. Oakland County’s court…
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Cellebrite and the Digital Trail: How Subpoenas Could Rewrite the Timeline in the Matthew Maison Case The tragic death of Matthew Maison has led to serious charges against Maurice Houle and his mother, Amanda. But beneath the headlines, one detail could shape how prosecutors and defense attorneys…
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The footage of Robert Brooks’ killing shocked the public. We identified 46 allegations that corrections officers assaulted prisoners in medical wings of New York prisons since 2010; Brooks and two other prisoners died, while many others were left with severe injuries.
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Whistleblowers Say Killen Power Plant Land Is Being Used for Farming—Despite Deed Bans I recently received a tip from Mansfield, OH residents that, if true, could turn the Killen Generation Station case completely on its head. So of course I dug into the PUBLIC records to find out. When DPL sold…
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Talkwalker: The “Listening” Tool That Marketers Use to Game Google Today we're going to talk about a clean-up tool that I regularly see in my web analytics: Talkwalker. Talkwalker markets itself as a social listening and consumer intelligence platform. It’s sleek, it’s AI-driven, and it promises…
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Adamo & SCM Lawyers Hand Me the Case They Wanted Buried — While Their Client’s Stepson Stalks Me Here's something funny for your day. Adamo and SCM's attorneys just accidentally handed me the mic. Sometimes, you don’t have to go digging for stories. Sometimes, the story shows up, wrapped in a bow,…
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Warrant Requested: Repeated Cyberstalking Crosses the Line There are very few words in the criminal justice system that feel like music. Today, for me, “Warrant Requested” is one of them. For those of us who spend our lives dissecting how the system fails, that phrase means something rare:…
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Farewell to Judge Frank Caprio: A Beacon of Compassion in the Courtroom Today, we mourn the loss of a rare figure whose presence on the bench radiated empathy and humanity. Judge Frank Caprio, beloved star of Caught in Providence, passed away at age 88 after courageously battling pancreatic…
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Clutch Q&A: Victoria Rusk – Storyteller, Mitigation Specialist, Visionary Before she was a nationally recognized Mitigation Specialist and founder of Heart of Justice and Mitigation University, my mentor, Victoria Rusk was a broadcast journalist, honing the skills that would later define her work.…
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Safe Harbor’s Silent Scandal: Why Are Board Screening Safeguards Ignored? When families walk into Safe Harbor Children’s Advocacy Center in Allegan, they expect protection. They expect transparency. They expect the highest possible standards from the people charged with guarding children. What…
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Clutch Q&A: Kevin Travis on Servant Leadership, Accountability, and a Judicial Run At Clutch Justice, we don’t just want resumes; we want the stories, the grit, and the worldview behind the people doing the work. That’s why this Q&A with Kevin Travis goes beyond titles and bullet points. From…
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Allegan County Judge Matthew Antkoviak Accused of Enabling Child Abuse Sometimes the biggest danger to a child doesn’t come from the street. It comes from the courtroom. That’s the allegation now leveled at Judge Matthew Antkoviak of Allegan County, who is being accused of systematically denying a…
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When Attorneys Cross the Line: Why I Filed a Grievance in Ohio Attorneys are supposed to uphold the law; not weaponize it. But when lawyers look the other way while people connected to their clients engage in harassment, intimidation, and even false police reports, the damage doesn’t stop with one…
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Cyberstalking, Intimidation, and a Federal Trail: Why Clutch’s Harassers May Be in Deeper Trouble Than They Think The Pattern We Can’t Ignore At Clutch Justice, we’ve grown used to a certain level of pushback. When you shine a light on corruption, you expect shadows to move. But what’s happening…
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Introducing H3 Network: Hope. Help. Humor. Sometimes the work of justice and reform feels heavy; because it is. But change doesn’t only come from exposing corruption and fighting back against systemic rot. It also comes from spaces that heal, empower, and give people a reason to laugh again.…
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Calling All Sources: Two New Exposés Coming in Hot Across the United States, two industries are quietly reshaping incarceration into a multibillion-dollar business: prison tablet providers and private prison corporations. Marketed as tools for rehabilitation and efficiency, these systems instead…
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10 Red Flags in Public Contracts That Could Spell Disaster Public contracts are supposed to protect taxpayers, ensure safety, and deliver on promises. But too often, they become vehicles for cronyism, cost-cutting, and corner-cutting, and communities are left paying the price. From dangerous…
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Transforming the criminal justice system is challenging, yet change is possible. Staying committed as we push for progress and anticipate global readiness is essential for the fight. #JusticeChange
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Miller v. Adamo and SCM: How the Opposition Has Worked Overtime to Silence a Family Everything you are about to read, I got from a public document. If you ever needed proof of how corporations weaponize the legal system to grind down survivors, look no further than the docket in Miller v. Adamo.…
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When a Law Firm Threatens You as a Journalist: Don’t Fold, Fight Back In my short time as a journalist, I’ve had at three separate law firms threaten me with cease and desists. Journalism isn’t a crime, but you wouldn’t know that by the way some law firms behave. When reporters uncover stories…
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Justice Speaks: Michigan’s Move to End Interpreter Fees in Criminal Courts The Detroit Free Press recently reported a disturbing court protocol that erodes due process. Since 2013, Michigan’s courts have allowed judges to require non-English-speaking criminal defendant with incomes above a certain…
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Humanity for Prisoners: Compassion Behind Bars, Hope Beyond Them When people think of prison, they often imagine steel bars, razor wire, and punishment. What rarely comes to mind is compassion. Yet that’s exactly what Humanity for Prisoners (HFP) has built its mission around: reminding every…
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The Gag Order They Don’t Want You to See: Why Defendants in Miller v. Adamo Group Want Silence In what can only be described as a crisis of confidence, the defendants in Travis Miller v. Adamo Group, SCM, and others, citing a need for "discretion", formally requested a gag order to muzzle…
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Shedding Light on the Travis Miller v. Adamo Group, SCM Lawsuit: The Fight for Accountability in the Killen Collapse Today, I downloaded Travis Miller’s lawsuit against the Adamo Group, SCM, Commercial Liability Partners, and others tied to the Killen Generating Station collapse. For too long, the…
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Ron Froh’s Testimony: Why His Environmental Record and Adamo Ties Spell Trouble I've been deep-diving into Travis Miller's case docket in his lawsuit against Adamo and SCM Engineered Demolition. Watching the players involved is incredibly telling, and the story is already unfolding on who is who,…
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Power & Purpose in Action: Why West Michigan’s New Training Matters for Democracy I don't know if you've noticed, but our democracy is under attack. Whether from authoritarian crackdowns on dissent, voter suppression, or ongoing efforts to strip away civil rights and personal freedoms. These…
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Healing to Advocacy: How Essie Justice Group Transforms Loved Ones into Leaders You don’t have to face your loved one’s incarceration alone. That’s the powerful promise behind the Healing to Advocacy Program, a free, nine-week journey designed for women and gender-expansive people with loved ones…
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Addiction Is a Disease. Full Stop. Every once in a while, someone like Judge Michael Schipper decides to open their mouth and declare: “Addiction isn’t a real disease.” And every time, they out themselves as willfully ignorant. Let’s be real: anyone who says addiction isn’t a disease, whether they…
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When the System Forgets Who It’s Supposed to Protect: Reports from a Bethany Christian Services Foster Home In Colon, Michigan, troubling reports have surfaced that a foster home connected to Bethany Christian Services allowed a five-year-old child to share a bedroom with an unrelated adult for…
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Walking with Warriors: How Michigan’s Veteran Navigator Program is Rewriting the Rules of Reentry For too long, justice-involved veterans have been forced to navigate the tangled mess of reentry on their own. Housing. Healthcare. Employment. Courts. The VA, even. Each one is a maze and the stakes…
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Barry County, Michigan is such a nightmare to deal with that lawyers charge extra just to put up with the extra nonsense. #barrycounty #michigan #criminaljusticereform #happyfriyay
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Dear Police Departments: Add a Checkbox for ‘Victim.’ Stop Redacting Whole Reports. Dear Police Departments, We need to talk. Every week, journalists, advocates, and families file public records requests to understand what happened in their communities. And every week, too many of those reports…
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Badges, Boundaries, and OnlyFans: When Cops Cross the Line Raise your hand if you blindly trust authority. 😉 I jest, but we all want to trust the “people in charge” and so often, it feels like we can’t. So what happens when that person in authority trades its badge for a mock traffic stop on…
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Building Bridges Through Art: My Encounter with Linkage Community at the 2025 Reentry United Conference This year’s Reentry United Conference was packed with advocates, innovators, and changemakers. But one group in particular stopped me in my tracks: Linkage Community. I had the tremendous honor…
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Zero Day: Lighting the Way for Veterans to Take “Zero Hour” into Their Own Hands In Michigan, one organization is redefining what it means for veterans to find purpose after service. Zero Day doesn’t just offer jobs; it ignites transformation. What Is Zero Day? Founded in December 2012 by Chuck…
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Bought and Sold: How PACs Built Michigan’s Housing Crisis While Sheriffs Refuse to Criminalize Poverty Here in Michigan, as rents skyrocket and affordable housing dwindles, some politicians keep cashing checks while counties are left to manage the human fallout: rising homelessness. But here’s the…
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From Disaster to Disguise: 6 Companies That Rebranded After Deadly Mistakes When a corporation’s name becomes synonymous with disaster, there are two ways forward: own up and make it right — or run from the wreckage. Too often, companies choose the latter, swapping out a tarnished brand for a…
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Celebration Fellowship: A Church Led by Returnees Offering Hope Beyond Prison Walls Celebration Fellowship Christian Reformed Church (CFCRC) is more than just a prison ministry; it’s a living testimony that faith can transform lives, break down walls, and rebuild communities. For years,…
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Turning the Page: A Farewell to the Justice Policy Institute and a Legacy That Lives On Publication Date: August 15, 2025 Today marks the close of a bold, essential chapter in criminal justice reform: the 30-year journey of the Justice Policy Institute has come to an end. What JPI Stood For—and…
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Breaking Free from Online Cults: Complete Guide to Spotting, Escaping, and Healing Clutch Guide to Breaking Free – The Full Series Wrap-Up Over the past month, Clutch Justice has taken you inside the mechanics of online cults—how they recruit, how they control, and most importantly, how people can…
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Drunk Driving, a Deputy City Manager, and a Badge: Inside Portage’s Carroll Report Thanks to a FOIA Request, we now have the full story about Former Portage City Manager Michael Carroll’s arrest and whether he abused his position during his drunk driving stop. The answer unequivocally, is yes.…