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Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...
Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...
Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center often makes news for its celebrities, but hundreds of others at the jail face ...
Supreme Court Decision on Prosecutor Sexism Could Give Women New Trials In January, the U.S. Supreme Court said Brenda Andrew, who was convicted of killing her husband in 2004, should possibly get a ...
In 2015, Los Angeles County created a program to reduce the number of mentally ill people trapped in jail. But since then, the number of people with mental illness incarcerated in LA has instead ...
The American Eviction Crisis, Explained Addressing extreme housing precarity requires more than rental assistance; it requires an overhaul of the system and redress of the longstanding discriminatory ...
On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation's largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advocates ...
According to FBI data, the U.S. is about as safe as it’s ever been. So why is tough-on-crime rhetoric on the rise?
The “shoplifting panic” myth let cops buy facial recognition software, drones, license plate readers, surveillance tech, and more.