Before the 2016 presidential election, the private prison industry was banking on a Donald Trump presidency to boost their lagging business, by cozying up to…
THIS AMERICAN PRISON LIFE
True crime fans should listen to this new podcast created by San Quentin inmates
The revival of true crime as a cultural genre owes a great deal to podcasts, which deliver tantalizing accounts of controversial and horrific crimes straight…
HIDDEN HISTORY
A new Google-backed platform exposes the legacy of lynching in America
To hear Bryan Stevenson tell it, the brutal history of lynchings in America is missing a crucial element: a narrative that shows the full extent…
A TRUMP BUMP
The private-prison industry has one big client that no one talks about
The largest jail system in the United States has no buildings of its own. Instead, it’s a shadowy complex of agreements that tucks detainees in…
SCENES FROM THE EPIDEMIC
The tiniest exposure to this drug can make America’s opioid crisis lethal even for the police
The opioid crisis in the US has grown to such alarming dimensions that librarians have to administer rescue drugs, police officers suffer from accidental exposure…
IN HIS OWN WORDS
Bill Cosby’s disturbing encounter with his sex-assault accuser, in his own words
Bill Cosby, the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” arrived at a Norristown, Pennsylvania courthouse Monday (June 5) as a defendant in a sexual-assault case.…
IN HER VOICE
Police are trying an unnerving new way to solve missing-children cases on Twitter
In the 1980s, Americans would pour milk for their cereal out of cartons that featured the faces of missing children, part of a broad campaign…
TRAVEL BAN
Australia plans to be the first country in the world to seize passports of child-sex offenders
Australian sex offenders convicted of crimes against children may be soon banned from leaving the country, their passports withheld by the government. It would be…
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Here’s Bernie Sanders’ full commencement speech at Brooklyn College
Brooklyn native and one-time student Bernie Sanders gave a true-to-style address at the commencement for Brooklyn College’s class of 2017 on Tuesday (May 30). In…
BACK HOME
Watch: Bernie Sanders’ commencement speech at Brooklyn College
During a commencement speech for Brooklyn College in New York, Bernie Sanders spoke about a social-studies lesson at his high school, which is not far…
WHAT'S IN A NAME
His name will always be synonymous with the horror of America’s juvenile-justice system
On the day Kalief Browder would’ve turned 24, a street corner in New York City’s Bronx was renamed in his honor, highlighting the multiple injustices…
E PLURIBUS UNUM
A new database aims to measure the incredibly fragmented US criminal-justice system
The US government can tell you a lot of things: how cruise ships rank in sanitation inspections, or which of its websites is most popular.…
