A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?Byy the time Richard Midkiff walked out of a Florida prison last year at age 42, he had spent more than half his life behind bars for a crime he committed when he was 19.Midkiff has now restarted his life: A full-time paralegal in Ocala, Florida, and the president of the board of a national organization providing legal help to incarcerated people, he begins his busy workdays at 5 a.m. And last month, he proposed to his fiancée, Marianna Kuchma, on the beach.This story was published in...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?Byy the time Richard Midkiff walked out of a Florida prison last year at age 42, he had spent more than half his life behind bars for a crime he committed when he was 19.Midkiff has now restarted his life: A full-time paralegal in Ocala, Florida, and the president of the board of a national organization providing legal help to incarcerated people, he begins his busy workdays at 5 a.m. And last month, he proposed to his fiancée, Marianna Kuchma, on the beach.This story was published in...WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.ByByn Sept. 12, 2018, the five adult children of Debbie Liles waited in the prosecutor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, to meet the man who one year earlier had bludgeoned their mother to death with a golf club.Michelle, 38, had brought what she called her “madwoman” binder of colorfully highlighted police reports...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.ByByn Sept. 12, 2018, the five adult children of Debbie Liles waited in the prosecutor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, to meet the man who one year earlier had bludgeoned their mother to death with a golf club.Michelle, 38, had brought what she called her “madwoman” binder of colorfully highlighted police reports...WW…