New Orleans Advocate Newspaper Releases Shameful Attack On Community Leader

June 20, 2017
Huffington Post

Several days a week, columnist James Gill exemplifies the mediocre writing, faulty arguments, and ignorance of basic facts that too often pass for commentary in The New Orleans Advocate.

Gill was far out of his depth on June 1, when he attacked Norris Henderson, a passionate advocate and reformer who spent over 27 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.

Henderson is widely recognized as one of the nation’s most brilliant and dedicated leaders in the field of criminal justice reform. He has lectured at Harvard Law School and appeared regularly on news reports from the New York Times to Al Jazeera. As Bill Quigley, director of the Law Clinic at Loyola, noted in response to Gill’s article, “In going after Norris Henderson, Mr. Gill and The Advocate remind us why our state is number one in the world in arresting and incarcerating its citizens.”

Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is among many national leaders who have been mentored by Henderson. “Anyone who knows Norris or has worked with him immediately understands that he is a man of great integrity,” says Warren. “When I became the head of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Norris was one of the first people I contacted for advice on building a strong, national criminal justice focus in our advocacy.”

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