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'So What? Maybe It Is a Concentration Camp'
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How the Activists Who Tore Down Durham's Confederate Statue Got Away With It
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The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores
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What It Takes to Actually Convict Police of Misconduct
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The Baltimore Police Department Is Badly Broken
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A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People
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How Letting Felons Vote Is Changing Virginia
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The Superiority of a States' Rights Approach to Marijuana
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The 'Double Punishment' for Black Undocumented Immigrants
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A Judicial Pact to Cut Court Costs for the Poor
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'What If This Were Your Kid?'
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Can Cops Unlearn Their Unconscious Biases?
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The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods
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How Drug-Free School Zones Backfired
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'The Court System Shouldn't Interrupt the Treatment Process'
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Americans Don't Really Understand Gun Violence
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New York City Has Its Own Fund to Bail People Out of Jail
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'I Don’t See Much Mercy in Donald Trump or Jeff Sessions'
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Footage of a Police Shooting That Jurors Chose Not to Punish
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California Is Running Out of Inmates to Fight Its Fires
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The Long History of Black Officers Reforming Policing From Within
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A Police Killing Without a Hint of Racism
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The Volunteer Vigilantes of New York City
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A Liberal-Conservative Alliance on the Supreme Court Against Digital Surveillance
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What Happens When a School Stops Arresting Kids for Throwing Skittles
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The Baltimore Cops Studying Plato and James Baldwin
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The Failure of New York's Bail Law
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The Gun-Control Legislation That Even Republicans Like
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Why It's Difficult for Former Inmates to Become Lawyers
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Why Congress Has Done Nothing on Guns
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Mass Shootings in America Are Spreading Like a Disease
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A 'Completely Unelectable' Progressive Will Probably Win Philadelphia's DA Race
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How New Jersey Is Leading the Post-Bail Revolution
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Stanching the School-to-Prison Pipeline
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Could a Controversial Bill Sink Criminal-Justice Reform in Congress?
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The Strangest Political Attack Ad of 2017
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New Orleans' Great Bail-Reform Experiment
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The Federal Jail Blocking Some Inmates' Kids From Visiting
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Should Federal Prosecutors Be Able to Search Americans' Emails Overseas?
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The Problem With Electing Prosecutors
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Protecting Heroin Clinics From Prosecution
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Will Florida Banish the Ghost of Jim Crow?
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American Policing Goes to the Supreme Court
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How Municipal Courts Target Low-Income Communities
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When Police Officers Don't Know About the ADA
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America's Uneven Crime Spike
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The Genomic Revolution Reaches the City Crime Lab
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What's the Right Punishment for Tearing Down a Confederate Monument?
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When Does the Right to an Attorney Kick In?
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Can Cops Force You to Unlock Your Phone With Your Face?
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When Escaping a Hurricane Means Risking Jail
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The Deal Prosecutors Offer When They Have No Cards Left to Play
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It's Almost Impossible for Inmates to Get a Divorce
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The Link Between Animal Abuse and Murder
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New Zealand Tries a Different Kind of Private Prison
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Why So Few Violent Offenders Are Let Out on Parole
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President Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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Could Police Have Prevented Bloodshed in Charlottesville?
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How Mental-Health Training for Police Can Save Lives—and Taxpayer Dollars
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When Prisoners Are a 'Revenue Opportunity'
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Innocence Is Irrelevant
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Will New York Stop Arresting People for Evading Subway Fares?
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The Watchdog Inside the DA's Office
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Trump's Vision of Lawless Order
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Why Texas Courts Will Stop 'Nickel-and-Diming' the Poor
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The Bipartisan Opposition to Sessions's New Civil-Forfeiture Rules
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Should Indian Reservations Give Local Cops Authority on Their Land?
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How Long Can Connecticut's Prison Reform Last?
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The Reckoning Over Young Prisoners Serving Life Without Parole
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Designing the Opposite of Rikers
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A Major Victory for the Right to Record Police
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How Prisoners' Family Members Can Assist Overworked Public Defenders
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Criminal-Justice Reform Survives Its First Stress Test
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A Mental-Health Crisis in Alabama’s Prisons
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How Black Girls Aren’t Presumed to Be Innocent
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Do Right-to-Carry Gun Laws Make States Safer?
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The Supreme Court Tinkers at the Edges of the Machinery of Death
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Do African Americans Have a Right to Bear Arms?
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Does Bad Health Care Constitute Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
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The Rise of Rural Incarceration
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Criminal-Justice Reformers Pin Their Hopes on Jared Kushner
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How Insurance Companies Can Force Bad Cops Off the Job
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How Minor Probation Violations Can Lead to Major Jail Time
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Why New Orleans Leads the U.S. in Wrongful Convictions
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Will Texas's Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities Hurt Law Enforcement?
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Why Boston Is Paying Ex-Gang Members to Go to College
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Why Jails Are Booming
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The Puzzle of Housing Aging Sex Offenders
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'We, Too, Are Targets of Police Violence'
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Why California Is a Case Study for Monitoring Police Misconduct
Stephen Lam / Reuters -
What Trump’s Ideal Justice Department Would Look Like
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The Federal Prosecutors Backing Jeff Sessions on Mandatory Minimums
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'A Mercy Move for Milwaukee'
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Roaming Charges
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Sheriff Clarke Joins the Trump Administration
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The Progressive Civil-Rights Lawyer Philadelphia Wants for District Attorney
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Should States Charge Low-Income Residents Less for Traffic Tickets?
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Who Really Makes Money Off of Bail Bonds?
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Jeff Sessions Reinvigorates the Drug War
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Lessons From Rikers Island
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'We’re Trying to Create the Village Again'
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Should Taxpayers Sponsor Attorneys for Undocumented Immigrants?
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Imagining the Presence of Justice
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Why U.S. Criminal Courts Are So Dependent on Plea Bargaining
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Should Communities Have a Say in How Residents Are Punished for Crime?
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'Until the Drug Dealer's Teeth Rattle'
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When the Courts Take Police Officers at Their Word
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To Protect and Serve (and Pray)
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Can States Tackle Police Misconduct With Certification Systems?
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The Baltimore Police Department Binds Itself to Reform
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Simplifying How the Courts Seal Criminal Records
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Justice Thomas's Doubts About Civil Forfeiture
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