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- 1From:All Things ConsideredTo listen to this broadcast, click here: BYLINE: DAN BOYCE HOST: JUANA SUMMERS JUANA SUMMERS: More than half a million people go to prison every year in America, and Colorado is one of the latest states trying a...
- 2From:The New York TimesI hadn't been to a gay bar in ages. Between Covid and addictive ''dating'' apps for cruising inappropriately unavailable men, it seemed an almost quaint idea. But on the evening of New Year's Day, the first Saturday in...
- 3From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: DAVID NEUFELD National president of the Union for Safety and Justice Employees The devastating events in Saskatchewan earlier this month - leaving 12 dead and 18 others injured - have rocked this country. As...
- 4From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE, Staff WOODLAND, CALIF. -- Lead More than two dozen faces stare into a Zoom call, taking in an admission of failure. "I heard you had a relapse a few days ago," Dave says. "Yeah,"...
- 5From:The Washington PostByline: Stephanie Lai WASHINGTON - Joel Castón wakes up in his corner cell before dawn as he has for the last 26 years while incarcerated. The light from the thin rectangular window offers little illumination as he...
- 6From:Michigan Lawyers WeeklyByline: BridgeTower Media Newswires By Derek Linkous and Susan McKeever David Bennett was just 17 years old in 1972, when he was consigned to die in prison, having been given a mandatory life-without-parole sentence...
- 7From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: ROBYN URBACK, Staff Lead Marco Muzzo will have the right answers this time. That's the one perk of flunking the test the first time and getting a do-over: The questions won't change and, this time,...
- 8From:The Washington PostFor Print Use Only. This editorial appears in The Washington Post. - - - After the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that it is unconstitutional to impose mandatory life-without-parole sentences on anyone under 18, a...
- 9From:All Things ConsideredTo listen to this broadcast, click here: BYLINE: ERIC WESTERVELT HOST: AILSA CHANG AILSA CHANG: Too often, people living with mental illness have run-ins with the law. They end up in jail and eventually on the...
- 10From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: ROBYN URBACK, Staff Lead Martin Kruze's legacy is a carpet of steel rods stretched along the perimeter of the Bloor Street Viaduct. Mr. Kruze was not the last person to jump to his death from the Toronto...
- 11From:Rhode Island Lawyers WeeklyByline: Barry Bridges On a mid-December morning in a Kent County courtroom, Superior Court Magistrate Judge John J. Flynn presided over a celebration of sorts as he hailed the success of seven defendants who had...
- 12From:Morning EditionTo listen to this broadcast, click here: BYLINE: PAIGE PFLEGER HOST: DAVID GREENE DAVID GREENE: A diversion program for victims of human trafficking is spreading to cities across the country. The model has its...
- 13From:Washingtonpost.comByline: Tracy Jan PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- He had spent 17 of his 46 years behind bars, locked in a pattern of addiction and crime that led to 16 prison terms. Now, Meko Lincoln pushed a cart of cleaning supplies at the...
- 14From:All Things ConsideredTo listen to this broadcast, click here: BYLINE: CHERYL CORLEY HOST: AILSA CHANG AILSA CHANG: A recent graduation at Cook County Jail in Chicago featured no caps, no gowns, not even balloons. But NPR's Cheryl...
- 15From:Politics & Government Week2019 JUN 13 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- Researchers detail new data in Legal Issues - Criminal Behavior. According to news reporting originating from Orlando,...
- 16From:The New York TimesWASHINGTON -- President Trump on Monday hosted about 300 guests, including convicted felons, at the White House for the ''First Step Act Celebration,'' a party intended to bring attention to a rare piece of bipartisan...
- 17From:Massachusetts Lawyers WeeklyByline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Where a plaintiff who violated the terms of his supervised release was sentenced to two years in prison plus two years of supervised release, he must be resentenced because the...
- 18From:The New York TimesJACKSBORO, Tenn. -- Tony Simpson, an entrepreneurial engineer, had grown increasingly concerned about Campbell County, Tenn., where he grew up and still lived. Despite a reasonably solid manufacturing base, as...
- 19From:The New York TimesWASHINGTON -- President Trump threw his support behind a substantial revision of the nation's prison and sentencing laws on Wednesday, opening a potential path to enacting the most significant changes to the criminal...
- 20From:The New York TimesSYDNEY, Australia -- When Alyson Colquitt was arrested in 2015 for selling cocaine, she expected jail time. What she did not expect was to spend more than a year in custody waiting to be sentenced, without access to...