Reform is under way at the nerve center of the penal state, but it won’t be enough.
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How to Help the Multiple Victims of a Wrongful Conviction
Restorative justice may open a path to healing for the exonerated, the state, and even the victim of the original crime.
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Prison Advocates Declare Win as Proposed Prison Phone Industry Merger Dies
Last year, two prison phone company giants, Securus and Inmate Calling Solutions (ICS) announced they planned to merge, sparking concerns of duopoly in an industry already dominated by a just a few major players. Such consolidation has long impacted poor people and those of color disproportionately, along with their families, as prison phone companies charge […]
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Trump Cornered
As investigations close in, the president’s rhetoric is turning more desparate—and more violent.
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Can the Courts Strike Down Right-to-Work?
After decades of anti-worker rulings, unions are now challenging Taft-Hartley on free speech and other constitutional grounds.
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California Ramps Up College Education Behind Bars
Prisons have been called universities of crime. What if they became, instead, actual universities?
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Something There Is that Doesn’t Love a Wall
Could that something be Chief Justice John Roberts?
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Not So Supreme?
Congress actually has a lot of mostly unused power to rein in the Roberts Court by clarifying the intent of the law.
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Parents Must Shut Down the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Building an educational justice movement to protect African American students has to begin in Pre-K.
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Shutdown Antics Obscure Big Moment in Russia Investigation
Foreign intervention in U.S. election not nearly as interesting as table-slamming petulance.