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November 11, 2021
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Wanda Bertram
State Prisons Released More People Before Covid-19 Than During It
Prison officials touted a compassionate response to Covid, but the statistics tell another story.
September 21, 2021
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Tana Ganeva
Biden’s Conservative Vision on Clemency
Thousands of incarcerated people went home early thanks to a Covid relief program. Why would the Biden administration send them back to prison?
February 19, 2020
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Matt Ford
The Real Message of Trump’s Latest Clemency Binge
The president showered mercy on a rogues’ gallery led by disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
December 20, 2013
Julia Ioffe
The Khodorkovsky Case: Putin Giveth and Putin Taketh Away
Why Putin freed Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and why now
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