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A National Book Award nominee uncovers an archive of massacre at Attica—only to have the records disappear.
Robert Chase
Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.
Kelly Lytle Hernández
A Massachusetts high court ruling acknowledges that black men aren’t wrong for wanting to run from police.
Simon Waxman
Illegal immigrants face horrible conditions in U.S. detention, with little legal recourse.
Colin Dayan
The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.
Christopher Petrella
Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.
Donna Murch
Images of police violence against African Americans have a radical heritage.
Benjamin Balthaser
After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.
Henry Ace Knight
Rapists should be held accountable. But is more incarceration the best way?
Judith Levine
Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.
Candice Delmas
White supremacy and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.
A nineteenth-century memoir sheds light on the origins of the modern prison.
Joy James
DNA is a powerful forensic tool. If only crime labs could be trusted with it.
Brandon L. Garrett
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