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Judge Orders Release of Videos Showing Gitmo Force-Feeding
Media outlets had been fighting for the release
Iranian President Rouhani Advises U.S. On How to Handle Terrorism
Also insists Iran is not building a nuclear bomb and ducks questions about arrests for a Youtube video, Washington Post journalists, and a 25 year-old woman watching a volleyball game.
A Welcome Softening of California's Tough-on-Crime Approach
Stay tuned. If Proposition 47 passes, it will be another sign that the days are over of winning political points by promising to execute teens.
Rikers Teen Inmate Dies in Agony After Officials Ignore Torn Artery for Months
Eventually, a doctor wrote him a prescription for hand cream.
Politicians Deny Compensation to Man Wrongfully Incarcerated for 11 Years
Buckley will file a lawsuit against the state seeking fair compensation.
Paul Ryan's Poverty Plan: Good on Incarceration, Licensing, Perverse Incentives; Not So Good on Paternalism
What's worthwhile in the Wisconsin congressman's proposals, and what's not
Why Won't California Release Innocent Men from Prison?
Gov. Jerry Brown has the power to exonerate them, but he won't use it.
If Every American State Was a Country, Which Would Have the World's Highest Incarceration Rate?
Mass incarceration, nation by nation.
America's Longest War: A Film About Drug Prohibition
Hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders are wasting their lives away in U.S. prisons.
A Serious Anti-Poverty Agenda Has to Include Criminal Justice Reform
Civil society vs. the law
The Most Interesting Man in Buzzfeed's Paul Ryan Profile Is Not Paul Ryan
Poverty and the right
DOJ to Attempt to Determine Just How Racist Police Are
Federal grants will be offered for more research.