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Topic: Criminal Justice

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Cash bail doesn't make us safer

Emily Galvin Almanza
Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Desperate MAGA exploits a teen killing

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Why Biden should empty federal death row

Austin Sarat
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at the White House on July 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden's clemency doesn't go far enough

Austin Sarat
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Cartoon sheriff image burning (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are sheriffs special? Not in a good way

Paul Rosenberg
Carlos Watson speaks onstage during OZY FEST 2018 at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park on July 21, 2018 in New York City. (Matthew Eisman/Getty Images for Ozy Media)

Crazy NYC grifter case — with zero Trump

Eugene S. Robinson
Gavel coming down on the US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS decision will leave US in crisis

Rachelle A. Matthews
Amanda Knox (C) arrives with her husband Christopher Robinson (L) at the courthouse in Florence, on June 5, 2024 before a hearing in a slander case, related to her jailing and later acquittal for the murder of her British roommate in 2007. (TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

Amanda Knox reconvicted of slander

Nardos Haile
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Joe Biden | Marijuana (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's half-step on weed isn't enough

Maritza Perez Medina, Kassandra Frederique
Former US President Donald Trump arrives to attend the wake for New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Jonathan Diller in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, on March 28, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The police providing Trump cover

Heather Digby Parton
Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The MAGAttorney movement keeps winning

Michael Collins
Joe Biden and Payton Gendron (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden betrays his moral code in Buffalo

Austin Sarat
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Tattoo artist designing motifs (Getty Images/Westend61)

The tattoo stigma exists, study finds

Nicole Karlis
Ronald Reagan, Mike Johnson and Richard Nixon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP "tough on crime"? Not in reality

Gregg Barak
An armed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officer escorts a condemned inamte at San Quentin State Prison's death row. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

California improving prisoner healthcare

Don Thompson - KFF Health News
Sammy Quiles (left) at his college graduation, with the author. (Photo courtesy of Chris Hedges)

After 30 years in prison: Graduation

Chris Hedges
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

Greg Abbott's rush to pardon a murderer

Heather Digby Parton
A sign for Unit 5 of Death Row, in a US prison, circa 1990. (Michael Brennan/Getty Images)

Alabama: We want crueler executions

Austin Sarat
Police car and crime scene tape (Getty Images/DenisTangneyJr)

"Copaganda": The epidemic spreads

Robin Andersen
Man on a phone against window blinds (Getty Images/Catherine Falls Commercial)

They called 911 — and it all went wrong

Brett Murphy - ProPublica
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File photo of the death chamber at the Texas Department of Corrections (Getty Images/Bettmann )

Lethal injection: 40 years of failure

Austin Sarat
Police officers gather to remove activists during an anti-death penalty protest in front of the US Supreme Court January 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Death penalty: Campaign issue no more

Austin Sarat
Rachel Mitchell and Julie Gunnigle (Photo illustration by Salon/Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/Nappsack Photography)

Phoenix to see biggest Post-Roe showdown

Kathryn Joyce
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the America First Agenda Summit, at the Marriott Marquis hotel July 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

If Trump were Black, he'd be in jail now

D. Watkins
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