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Criminal Justice
August 20, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Stories Kamala Harris Won’t Tell Anymore
In her historic DNC speech, the former prosecutor elided most of her resume to craft a different image of her record.
July 2, 2020
Jack Shuler
Can the White People of Small-Town America Get Behind the Movement for Black Lives?
The George Floyd protests have spread to the heavily white areas of rural Ohio. Only time will tell whether the alliance will last.
June 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Turn Rikers Island Into a Solar Farm
A prison built on trash heaps and racism could become a job-providing source of clean energy for some of the most polluted boroughs of New York City.
June 18, 2020
Arthur Longworth
How to Survive Supermax
Inside the hell of solitary confinement
June 9, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Rush to Redefine “Defund the Police”
An abolitionist demand rose to mainstream prominence. Now every politician and cable news talking head is suddenly an expert.
June 3, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
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Katie McDonough
Protest Medics on Being Targeted by the Police, in Their Own Words
“The cops at the protest that day wouldn’t make eye contact. They were laughing at one point. I think they think this is funny.”
May 31, 2020
Ryu Spaeth
America’s Social Contract Is Broken
The protests across the country are about more than police violence.
May 29, 2020
Patricia
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Melissa Gira Grant
I Gave Birth While Incarcerated During a Pandemic
“It got to the point where us pregnant females were denying our medical treatment. It was almost like a boycott.”
May 3, 2020
Justine van der Leun
Death of a Survivor
In April, Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay became the first woman incarcerated by New York State to die from Covid-19. Should she have been in prison in the first place?
April 22, 2020
Anna Clark
He Was Wrongly Imprisoned for 25 Years. It Wasn’t DNA Evidence That Got Him Out.
Ramon Ward was exonerated thanks to a new system of reinvestigating old cases. He hopes he’s not the last.
April 21, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Brief Criminal History of the Mask
How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since
April 17, 2020
Matt Ford
To Protect and Serve, or Pilfer and Steal?
It's commonly held that letting the cops do crimes is a big no-no, but thanks to a zany lower court ruling the question is in the Supreme Court's hands.
April 15, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Pleading for Clemency in a Pandemic
Petitions for early release reveal the contours of people’s lives before incarceration, conditions on the inside, and what might come after.
April 14, 2020
Karina Piser
Out of Prison With Nowhere Safe to Go
As states grant early release to slow the spread of Covid-19, many people are leaving incarceration broke and without a net.
April 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The New American Death Sentence
Police are making low-level arrests even as public health experts have called for immediate decarceration to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
April 7, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Shock Doctrine Came for Bail Reform
Conservative opponents of cash bail reform in New York saw an opportunity in the pandemic—and took it.
April 6, 2020
Magazine
Nick Pinto
Bailing Out
Criminal justice reformers are rethinking the crusade against cash bail.
March 24, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Scenes From an American Pandemic
Hospital workers, street medics, and people in prison describe navigating the coronavirus and life as they know it right now.
March 10, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
No Justice for Harvey Weinstein’s Victims
A long prison sentence can’t repair the harm he caused for dozens of women over many decades. What would it look like to demand more?
March 4, 2020
Amy Littlefield
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Laura Gottesdiener
The Radical Future of Self-Managed Abortion Is Already Here
“I remember one woman who arrived and asked, ‘Is this the clinic?’ And we were like, ‘What clinic?’”
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