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Topic: Criminal Justice System

Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters and staff on his airplane, known as Trump Force One, as he is flown to Iowa on Monday, March 13, 2023, in West Palm Beach, FL. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Sad day for Trump, good day for America

Heather Digby Parton
Human brain, conceptual illustration (Getty Images/KTSDesign/SCIENCEPHOTOLIBRARY)

Justice system is failing mentally ill

Katheryn Houghton
The memorial for George Floyd (Steel Brooks/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The racist roots of American policing

Connie Hassett-Walker - The Conversation
(Getty/Luke_Franzen)

Why are private prisons controversial?

John M. Eason - The Conversation
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Sanders unveils criminal justice plan

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee May 1, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Win McNamee)

Barr bringing back federal death penalty

Igor Derysh
FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2013 file photo, inmates sit in their bunks in Dorm B at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Ala. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File) (AP)

#FreeBlackMamas on Mother's Day

Victoria Law - Waging Nonviolence
(Matt Smith/Salon Talks)

In prison, he wrote his plan for success

D. Watkins
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(Moth Studio (Building), Jess X. Snow (Mural))

"Serial": True crime and punishment

Chauncey DeVega
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2011 file photo, a corrections officer keeps watch outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. ((AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File))

Corrections officers are not the enemy

Simon Greer - Independent Media Institute
Bryan Stevenson (Nina Subin)

Racial justice: Work is "just beginning"

Rachel Leah
Monroe Laws and Antoine Money mix ingredients to make a nutraloaf, a meal typically given to inmates for misbehavior involving food or bodily waste, before cooking it in a kitchen at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Privatized prison food: Just say no

Tom Perkins - Civil Eats
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Brett Kavanaugh (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Brett Kavanaugh, liberal hero? (OK, no)

Jason Harrow
(AP Photo/Jim Cole)

18 years wrongfully imprisoned

Rachel Leah
Meek Mill (Getty/Drew Hallowell)

"Retire the free Meek Mill hashtag"

Rachel Leah
Meek Mill (AP/Matt Rourke)

Meek Mill is free. Now he's on a mission

Rachel Leah
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(Getty Images/istockphoto)

Rolling back the "superpredator" myth

Rachel Leah
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-242458p1.html'>Gunnar Pippel</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Changing bail rules from behind bars

Emily C. Bell - Alternet
(Getty/Spencer Platt)

Working towards bail reform

Mehreen Kasana - Alternet
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Report: Nearly all DAs are white

Liz Posner - Alternet
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (The New Press/Shutterstock)

NJ prisons ban book criticizing prisons

Charlie May
Kim Kardashian West (AP/Willy Sanjuan)

Kim Kardashian, champion for justice?

Rachel Leah
A bus with a message of support for Meek Mill drives in Philadelphia (AP/Matt Rourke)

Why you need to care about Meek Mill

Rachel Leah
First Lady of NYC Chirlane McCray visits inmates at the Rikers Island Prison Complex in Queens.

The moral crisis of women in jail

Rachel Leah
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