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Coercive control laws take into account nonphysical tactics abusers use to trap their partners. But some worry the new laws will hurt victims.

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“Our number-one objective was to counter the Aryans’ program of ‘jumping in recruits’ by beating up gays and sex offenders. So we teamed up every time they tried, and after a few of their initiations went south, they began jokingly calling us the ‘Rainbow Warriors.’”

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Despite what you see on CSI, old-school hair analysis is junk science. But it still keeps people behind bars due to flawed testimony, high bars for overturning convictions, and difficulties explaining the limitations of hair analysis to juries. 🎥: @bychrisvazquez.bsky.social‬

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About 2,000 transgender people are incarcerated in federal prisons, according to the Bureau of Prisons — a tiny fraction of the federal prison population. But they are disproportionately targeted for abuse and assault.

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The U.S. prison system today faces the same problems as when former facilities were full: isolation, mental illness, and the disproportionate number of incarcerated Black and brown people. Educational prison tourism can show us how far we haven’t come.

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Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human contact — or medication.

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Twelve jurors had found Marvin Rice guilty of murder. But they could not unanimously agree on whether he should live or die. Missouri is one of two states where a judge gets the final say when jurors can’t agree on the punishment — even when they vote 11 to 1 for life, as they had in Rice’s case.

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There’s no national count of how many people with dementia are arrested each year. But our analysis shows the arrests of people over 65 grew by nearly 30% between 2000 and 2020 — at the same time that overall arrests fell by nearly 40%.

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The Bureau of Prisons’ new deputy director’s past incarceration has drawn outrage from some officers — and support from people still inside.

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Twelve jurors had found Marvin Rice guilty of murder. But they could not unanimously agree on whether he should live or die. Missouri is one of two states where a judge gets the final say when jurors can’t agree on the punishment — even when they vote 11 to 1 for life, as they had in Rice’s case.

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We reviewed lawsuits and official complaints filed since 2021 by 33 people confined in Ohio’s state prisons saying staff violated their rights by opening and reading their legal mail. Disciplinary records showed that correctional officers punished those who spoke out.

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What I liked about this @themarshallproject.org story is that the people suffering from the issue are who tell the story. I assume that having a pipeline to get these testimonies –and to dispute them with the prison's comms teams is not easy to build. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/09/19/p...

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Anti-loitering laws have historically been used to police LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups. Here’s how that’s played out in the past and today. 🎥: @bychrisvazquez.bsky.social‬

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A 9-year-old pepper sprayed in handcuffs, crying for her dad. A teenager wrestled to the ground, and another pepper sprayed while waiting for the bus. All were Black girls hurt by police.

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The Parkland shooter's defense team dug into his troubled life and convinced a jury to spare him the death penalty. Then Florida became only the second state to require a less-than-unanimous jury verdict for executions. ⁠

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In these states, law enforcement and prosecutors have expanded their use of child abuse and neglect laws in recent years to police the conduct of pregnant women under the concept of “fetal personhood.”

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"Each of my dogs has been a teacher. Lee: Stay present, you can choose what you pay attention to. Lexi: Smile and get on with it. Annie has taught me the most. And what I’ve learned is that caring for others is my special purpose."

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“These women—many reconciling histories of substance misuse, violence, trauma, racism, sexism, and isolation—were working hard to rebuild their lives. Sadly, I saw many penalized for pursuing lives post-incarceration that did not fit gendered or heteronormative ideas of success.”

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Critics say there’s no evidence that castration prevents future sex offenses. Yet several states are weighing such measures.

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As the Justice Department slashes funding to programs across the U.S., Wilkes County’s planned recovery court was halted before it started.

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“Recently I’ve been signing up for mental health care, and they’ve been ignoring my requests. And they just abruptly stopped my hormones. I don’t know why. When you stop a transgender person’s hormones, you just fuck with them mentally, emotionally. I think they’re doing it to punish me.”

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Troy, Alabama, police severely beat Ulysses Wilkerson when he was 17. Seven years later, his mom, Angela Williams, is still fighting for answers.

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Our toolkit helps you report on how the widespread, long-term trend of declining prison staff with rising numbers of incarcerated people affects both safety behind bars and state budgets.

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An anti-drug smuggling policy has slowed the delivery of time-sensitive court documents as prison staff read letters protected by attorney-client privilege.

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One of the most enduring ideas about crime — and violence more broadly — is that a lot of it is committed by people we call “psychopaths.” But there is shockingly little science behind the diagnosis of psychopathy, according to a new book by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen.

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Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when cops raided her Florida home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder. Read her essay ⬇️

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Nearly 100 years ago, a play about a lesbian romance sparked a push for censorship and a police crackdown on similar productions. With U.S. law enforcement sometimes enforcing LGBTQ book bans today, what echoes of this history are we now seeing? ✍️ & 🎥: @bychrisvazquez.bsky.social‬

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Prison walls shouldn’t stop a person from appealing a conviction or alleging civil rights abuses while incarcerated. But a 2021 pandemic-era crackdown on drug smuggling in the mail has delayed or prevented basic legal documents from reaching people inside Ohio’s 28 state prisons.

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Earlier this month, Josh J. Smith, who served five years in the federal prison system on drug charges, was tapped to be deputy director at the agency that had locked him up. The new deputy director’s past incarceration has drawn outrage from some officers — and support from people still inside.

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Castration — both reversible and permanent — does lead to the reduction of testosterone and a diminished libido. But “there is literally no evidence that testosterone is the driving factor of individuals committing crimes of a sexual nature,” said a senior analyst with the Sentencing Project.

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Very little of what the Department of Homeland Security is promising across a multi-million dollar ad blitz about the benefits of self-deportation matches the reality of immigration law. So what’s actually true? Here’s a closer look at some of DHS’s claims.

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Rafael Rodriguez’s artistic mentor and cellmate, Memo, taught him how to pour his anger and pain into oil painting.

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