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Singer R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on September 17, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. (Antonio Perez - Pool via Getty Images)

R. Kelly hospitalized for overdose

Alex Galbraith
Slaves at Smith's Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1862. (Library of Congress/Digiital Public Library of America)

Hidden history of the Monroe Doctrine

Benjamin Weber
Prison cells (Getty Images/Hitoshi Nishimura)

Criminology stirs biology's racist past

Michael Schulson - Undark
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

Extreme heat killing prisoners in Texas

Alleen Brown - Grist
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Climate change comes to prisons

Alleen Brown - Grist
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

Waiting in jail for mental health care

Andy Miller, Rebecca Grapevine - KFF Health News
A Ku Klux Klan demonstration at the state house building on July 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Getty/John Moore)

Racist prison guards kept on the job

Trish Rooney
Young woman behind prison bars (Getty Images)

Prisons are breeding COVID

Danielle Wallace - The Conversation
Low angle vintage prison cell (Getty Images)

Vax rates lag among prison guards

Amy Worden - KFF Health News
Coronavirus | Jail bars (Getty Images/Salon)

Texas shutting 3 more prisons amid COVID

Jolie McCullough - The Texas Tribune
Low angle vintage prison cell (Getty Images)

"Lockdown" experts the pandemic needs

Stacy Burnett
Person's hands holding prison bars (Getty Images)

COVID-19: What prosecutors need to do

Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Stephanie Morales, Karl Racine
Saroyal Booker, practices sautéing vegetables before her final exam at the Culinary Job Training program at DC Central Kitchen in Washington, DC. Saroyal is staying at Friends of Guest House in Alexandria, Virginia, which helps women successfully reenter the workforce from incarceration. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

From prison to the workplace

Hilda L. Solis, Mark Ridley-Thomas
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How "tough on crime" became a liability

Jody D. Armour - The Conversation
(Reuters/Fred Thornhill)

Which state has the worst drug laws?

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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Why are private prisons controversial?

John M. Eason - The Conversation
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"We failed as an agency"

Jolie McCullough - The Texas Tribune
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden (Getty/Sean Rayford)

Biden makes false claims on crime bill

Igor Derysh

BraGate: Kansas City's underwire war

JoAnne Sweeny
(Getty/Salon)

What gets a book banned in prison?

JoAnne Sweeny, Terri LeClercq

Can pink really pacify?

Julie Irish - The Conversation
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Rehabilitation plus rehab?

Anna Gorman - KFF Health News
Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone (AP/Matt York)

Maricopa Co. after Joe Arapaio

Vincent Peña - Salon Young Americans
(Reuters/Fred Thornhill)

Behind the prison walls

Heather Ann Thompson - The Conversation
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