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VOD Editor Diane Bukowski, Field Editor Ricardo Ferrell
By Diane Bukowski
September 5, 2022
DETROIT — The Voice of Detroit was founded in 2010, by its editor Diane Bukowski, when the Michigan Citizen newspaper dumped her after publishing 10 years of her ground-breaking stories, then went out of business three years later. Bukowski was known for her articles on prisons and the police, the dismantling of the City of Detroit, its departments and neighborhoods, the Detroit Public Schools, and multiple other issues.
Published pro bono, the Voice of Detroit has forged on, focusing since 2021 on articles related to the most dispossessed among us, whose lives are taken by mass incarceration and street executions by law enforcement. VOD Field Editor Ricardo Ferrell, incarcerated for decades, has helped keep that coverage going, with more than 40 articles from inside the walls of the MDOC. Photos of the subjects of those VOD stories appear in this post. To read the articles, put any name in the VOD search engine at the top right of this page.
VOD ‘s first series of articles on the wrongfully convicted include these men.
VOD is financed out of the minimal fixed incomes of its editor and staffers, f0r the benefit of the people. Every quarter, we must pay a web-hosting fee which has now increased to $465.00, to keep VOD on-line, in addition to multiple other expenses.
VOICE OF DETROIT HAS LED THE WAY IN THE BATTLE FOR JUVENILE LIFERS,, PARTICULARLY FROM WAYNE COUNTY.
VOD DOES NOT EXIST WITHOUT THE INTERNET. If $465.00 is not paid this month, VOD and twelve years of its stories will DISAPPEAR from view.
We are calling especially on the families and friends of those featured in VOD, prisoners in the Michigan Department of Corrections and the Wayne County Jail, and those killed by police, such as seven year-old Aiyana Jones, to step forward and donate to keep VOD going. We implore other justice-seekers to step forward as well, including attorneys, advocates, and activists everywhere.
VOD has led the way particularly in fighting for Wayne County’s juvenile lifers, 50 of whom Wayne Co. Prosecutor Kym Worthy has forced to continue battling for re-sentencing ten and more years since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the practice. JLWOP is unknown across the globe, except in the United States.
Screenshots of Wayne County Jail detainess interviewed in March, 2022. Eleven detainees filed suit against the County in June, citing gross violations of their rights, led by Darrell Ewing (bottom right).
This year, VOD has covered the heroic battles of detainees in the Wayne County Jail, many held for up to four years in violation of their constitutional right to a speedy trial. The County has held trials at a snail’s pace, limiting them only to selected courtrooms.
The detainees have been denied even a “breath of fresh air” in recreation outside the jail, and even inside in the gym, since the COVID pandemic began in 2020, leading to severe deterioration of their health. They are denied in-person family visits, and their right to receive mail in a timely and legal fashion has been severely curtailed.
VOD Editor Diane Bukowski’s 10-year career with the Michigan Citizen was highlighted by her breaking stories on Serial Killer Kop Eugene Brown, and Detroit’s Booty Boys rapist cops Michael Osman and Michael Parish, as well as many others which exposed murderer police. VOD has continued that record, particularly with its coverage of the horrifying murder of 7-year-old Aiyana Jones in 2010 and continuing through the years of trials involved in the case. VOD was the ONLY media outlet which told the whole truth about the murder and the trials, while the mainstream media devoted itself to maligning Aiyana’s family. 
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Donations for the Voice of Detroit are urgently needed to keep 
this paper, which is published pro bono, going. Among ongoing expenses are quarterly HostPapa web charges of $460.00 (due at the latest by Sept. 19 this month), costs for research including court documents, internet fees, office supplies, gas, etc. The editor and reporters are not paid for their dedicated work, and many live on fixed incomes or are incarcerated. Please, if you can:
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