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After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
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Suing to protect right of incarcerated people to receive physical mail
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NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions
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It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
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Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars
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Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization
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Woman sues after DNA from rape kit used to arrest her
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Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case
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Why Punish?
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In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously
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Brainwashing is sorcery
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Police can’t demand you reveal your phone passcode then tell a jury you refused
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Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018)
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Signal for Help
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Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
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Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them
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Police in the US shoot dogs so often, an expert calls it an “epidemic” (2016)
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Don’t submit to conformity
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Illinois first state to tell police they can't lie to minors in interrogations
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Irish police to be given powers over passwords
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Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to change that
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Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution
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New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity
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Program teaches prisoners coding so they can land tech jobs once released
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Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court
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Charles Lindbergh is the reason the U.S. doesn't have cameras in the courtroom
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Half of All False Convictions in US Involved Police or Prosecutor Misconduct
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When is it okay for a lawyer to lie? (2018)
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Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench
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Dog insurer: 'jumping, running, slipping, tripping, playing' not covered (2016)
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U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for sleeping in public
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I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit
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South Carolina judges often lack formal training in the law
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The NYPD kept an illegal database of juvenile fingerprints for years
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Cops are making fewer arrests since N.J. got rid of cash bail
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When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested
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Stun Belts in Court
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Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'?
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Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted
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An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands
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More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat products
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One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases
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West Virginia’s Supreme Court Impeachment Crisis
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Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions
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Manhattan DA's office drops more than 3,000 open marijuana cases
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Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (2016)
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Jails are replacing visits with video calls–inmates and families hate it
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Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years
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Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System
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New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
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King County rolls out Miranda rights tailored for young people
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What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty
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What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing
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Zuckerberg-Backed Data Trove Exposes the Injustices of Criminal Justice
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Louisiana prosecutors are using fake subpoenas to pressure witnesses to talk
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Why are crime victims being jailed?
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Drinking While Jurying
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Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal
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California man fights DUI charge for driving under influence of caffeine
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People’s freedom jeopardised by new software adopted by California’s courts
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A Law Professor Explains Why You Should Never Talk to Police
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Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor
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Training Computers to Find Future Criminals
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Machine Bias
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Prison phones are a predatory monopoly – One family fought back and won
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The End of Prison Visitation
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Do We Still Need Prisons?
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California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State
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How many people are in jail based on faked data?
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For the First Time, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting
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What Happens When You Enter the Witness Protection Program?
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Fifth Amendment Flowchart
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Public defender: it’s impossible for me to do a good job representing my clients
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Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers
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America's Peculiar Bail System
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A Grand Juror Speaks: The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way
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Reminder: Oh, Won't You Please Shut Up? (2011)
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Three Years on Rikers Without Trial
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Why I Left the Law (1997)
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In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner
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US Government: Guards may be responsible for half of prison sex assaults
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Burn the Fucking System to the Ground
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I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
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Map of Botched Paramilitary Police Raids
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No One Is Innocent
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Where “nothing to hide” fails as logic
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'Too Big to Jail' Admission Changes Debate
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SparkFun Gets A Subpoena
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Judge: Fifth Amendment doesn't protect encrypted hard drives
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The Latest Crime Wave: Sending Your Child to a Better School
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False confessions
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Too many laws, too many prisoners
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The logic behind treating "sexting" teens as child pornographers
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America's unjust sex laws
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Common sense dies when adults catch teenagers "sexting" each other
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Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free
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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
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WA House bill would make it illegal for police to lie during interrogations
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My Clients, the Liars
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Jails banned visits in "quid pro quo" with prison phone companies, lawsuits say
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Maryland pardons 175,000 people of cannabis convictions
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200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
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