behind bars, beyond means: the crushing expense of...
When Kristal Bush’s mother nearly went broke from the expense of visiting her son in...
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editorial: still time for justice in scottsboro -...
10 May 1932: whether these seven boys are done to death the blackest chapter will have been written...
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kendrec mcdade died in a hail of us police bullets...
In a moving interview,Anya Slaughter says that all she wants from police is ‘the truth’ about...
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demolish that lie: james forman jr takes on black...
The son of a prominent civil rights leader argues in a fresh book,Locking Up Our Own, that the...
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man behind gutting of voting rights act: states...
Meet Edward Blum,who has led legal challenges to civil rights protections in recent years – from...
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for 18 years, i thought she was stealing my...
A woman apparently using my name meant a nightmare of unpaid traffic fines and a criminal record....
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a second chance at life: meet angie jenkins,...
Jenkins was set free 12 years early on a 30-year sentence,her commutation one of a historic number...
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crackdown on solitary confinement begins, but a...
The concealed nature of the practice – endured by Albert Woodfox for longer than anyone –...
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corrupt justice: what happens when judges bias...
Divorced mother Margaret Besen tells her five-year struggle to get justice,just one chronicle in the...
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why do us courts still shackle children accused of...
America continues to shackle children in juvenile courts,though few pose a flight or safety risk....
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jay z, kaepernick and the disturbing story of the...
Meek Mill’s incarceration for minor probation infractions has prompted protest,shedding light on...
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albert woodfox speaks after 43 years in solitary...
Exclusive: in his first interview as a free man,the final of the Angola Three tells Ed Pilkington...
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struggling single mother jailed over accidental...
Jeannetta Maclin,23, of St Louis, and was at work trying to develop ends meet when her children...
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i am tyra patterson: celebrities and activists...
In a current video,actor Alfre Woodard, crazy Men creator Matthew Weiner and others advocate for...
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politicians, celebrities - even jurors - call for...
After a three-allotment series on Tyra Patterson’s chronicle featured in Guardian US,celebrities,...
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black americans failed by inherently biased legal...
As the American Bar organization’s first black female president,Paulette Brown hopes to change...
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bipartisan sentencing reform bill praised as...
whether passed,the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act would reduce mandatory minimum sentences...
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the injustice system: one womans journey to prove...
Tyra Patterson says she was an harmless teenage bystander who ran absent from a murder. Prosecutors...
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houses sentencing reform bill plans to reduce...
Bipartisan committee’s criminal justice reform bill would reduce mandatory minimums on drug...
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trumps judicial picks: the goal is to end the...
Donald Trump is radically reshaping the same federal courts that hold been the biggest bulwark...
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the women who ride for hours to visit loved ones...
They all employ the van service provided by Bridging the Gap,based in Philadelphia, for personal...
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texas prosecutor officially disbarred for sending...
Board of disciplinary appeals upholds decision against Charles Sebesta,who presented counterfeit...
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the injustice system: tyra patterson proclaims her...
After 21 years, Tyra Pattersons freedom rests in the hands of a Republican candidate for the White...
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