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The Dark Origins of Conjugal Visits
In 1960, Mildred Carter arrived at Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi to visit her husband George Carter, a forty-two-year-old convict serving ten years for assault and battery. After driving up the...
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He Didn’t Abuse His Daughter.
David Dunbar of the Bronx has been refused custody of his 16-year-old daughter, Destiny, in part because he was not married to her mother. For the first five years of his...
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Your Arrest Was Dismissed.
When a man named J.J. was arrested in the Bronx in 2016, the public defenders assigned to represent him assumed he’d get a good plea deal. After all, it appeared...
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Life after Prison? The first 72
NEW ORLEANS — There is a garden next to the house on Perdido Street, and a red dog house on the porch that used to belong to a street dog...
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Unlocking The Vote In Jails
The majority of the 745,000 people held in local jails can vote, but few do. Advocates say it’s voter suppression on a national scale.Cook County jail detainees cast their votes...
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Racism Tainted Their Trials.
North Carolina Supreme Court Hearings raise broad questions of systematic bias in the State Judicial System.Seven years ago, a judge ruled that prosecutors improperly excluded black jurors in the murder...
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After Prison I Became a Better
When I was in prison, I was so incredibly desperate to be with my children.I’d lie in bed at night, and remember how happy my older daughter was at her...
