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It Costs About 50 Times More to Make a Call from an Illinois Jail than Illinois State Prison
When you’re thrown behind bars, not much is more important than a phone call. And while a lot of...
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Hundreds of Psychologists Call for Protecting Kids From “Constant Threats” of Gun Violence
As the nation marks the one-year anniversary of the Parkland mass shooting, hundreds of psychologists and other experts in...
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A 2015 Case Was Supposed to Overhaul California’s Solitary Confinement. The Reality Is Much More Complicated.
The September 2015 day that Ashker v. Brown was settled, Dolores Canales’ son had been held in solitary confinement for 15 years. “It was...
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Shocking Video Shows Florida Sheriff’s Deputy Calling a Black Man “Boy” and Grabbing Him by the Neck
A sheriff’s deputy in Florida was recently put under investigation following the review of disturbing body-cam footage. The video...
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This Teenager Says She Killed Her Rapist in Self-Defense. Should She Spend Life Behind bars?
(Update 2/8/2019): On Friday, state prosecutors filed a rebuttal to Maryanne Atkins’ attorneys’ request for a nine-year sentence. In...
The Transportation Security Administration discovered a record 4,239 guns in travelers’ carry-on luggage in 2018, according to annual figures released...
For decades, when it came to releasing records related to police officers’ conduct, California was among the least transparent...
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It Is the International Day of Awareness for Female Genital Mutilation. Does the U.S. Protect Girls at Risk?
After a district judge ruled last November that a federal law banning female genital mutilation in the United States was...
In mid-December, Congress and Donald Trump celebrated a rare bipartisan victory when the president signed a law to reform...
After it reached its peak both in its use and popular support in the 1990s, the frequency of the death penalty...