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The family of Layleen Polanco, the 27-year-old Afro-Latina trans woman who died while in solitary confinement on…
May 8
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“It’s a lynch mob,” said Marcus Arbery, father of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old black man who was shot and killed…
Mar 2
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Everyone already forgot about Klobmentum—Senator Amy Klobuchar’s brief uptick in a few Democratic primary polls…
Aug 7 2019
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Cyntoia Brown, who served 15 years in prison for killing a man who solicited her for sex when she was 16-years-old,…
Aug 1 2019
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Because primary debates are packaged by cable networks as a pay-per-view brawl, the very normal back and forth…
Jul 2 2019
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Do you wish you knew more about every Democrat running for president? But you also have a life or at least pretend…
Feb 4 2019
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California Senator Kamala Harris is already emerging as a serious contender in a crowded field of Democratic…
Nov 7 2018
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HOUSTON, TEXAS—Shortly after 9 p.m., when MSNBC announced that Beto O’Rourke would not be the next senator for the…
Oct 22 2018
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Jared Kushner—a man who both comes from and married into a family of wealthy grifters—has revealed how he got so…
Sep 25 2018
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NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania—Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison on Tuesday for the night in…
Jan 3 2018
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Over at Racked, Marien Komar has written a fascinating piece on both the history of contraband cosmetics in prisons…
Dec 26 2017
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Ohio woman Tyra Patterson, the subject of the Guardian’s 2016 three-part look into the flaws of the U.S. criminal…
Sep 13 2017
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The Tennessean reported that a 26-year-old Nashville woman named Katie Layne Quackenbush was charged with attempted…
Jul 19 2017
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Another lovely day in the bullshit mines.
Jun 13 2017
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In 1999, Richard Anthony Jones was given a mandatory sentence of 19 years after a witness identified him as one of…
May 12 2017
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Sessions Reverses Policy, Orders Prosecutors to Pursue the Most 'Serious, Readily Provable' Offenses
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions, busy as he is with baldly involving himself in an investigation he is supposed to be…
May 9 2017
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Here’s a bit of good news to help you contend with most of the bad: Chelsea Manning will be released from prison…
Jan 19 2017
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Here is a last gasp of good news from the Obama administration, something nice to go out with before all the bad: on…
Jan 17 2017
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In a breaking, staggering bit of good news, President Obama has commuted the prison sentence of former Army…
Jan 4 2017
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On a Saturday evening last January, Gynnya McMillen was staying at her mother’s apartment complex in Shelbyville, a…