Criminal justice Archives

Criminal justice

Crime and Punishment

by Ras Baraka, Rosa Brooks, Barry Friedman, Christy E. Lopez, Tracey L. Meares, Brian O’Hara, Patrick Sharkey,

Can American policing be fixed?

What’s Real

by Rachel Kushner,

In the fall of 2014 I began attending hearings, some of them banal and procedural, others more emotional, for a Los Angeles murder trial that was cranking its way through…

Power of Attorney

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can progressive prosecutors achieve meaningful criminal-justice reform?

Texas Is the Future

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

Test Perp

From a questionnaire created by Northpointe, a company that develops software to determine the likelihood that a defendant in a criminal trial will break the law in the future. The…

Captive Markets

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

A Grand Juror Speaks

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus,

The inside story of how prosecutors always get their way

Captive Market

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

Our Common Trouble

by Scott Korb,

In search of justice and forgiveness in Florida

Final Jeopardy

From more than 200 questions posed by jurors over two days in March during the trial of Jodi Arias. Arias, who stands accused of the 2008 murder of her former…

Fiend Request

From comments on the Facebook page of the Jefferson County, Alabama, sheriff’s office, posted last January in response to a photo of Dustin McCombs, who was wanted on charges of…