Criminal justice

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, on October 2, 2015

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…

Fulsome Prison

by Danny Hembree,

From a letter sent in January to the Gaston Gazette, a North Carolina newspaper, by Danny Hembree, a fifty-year-old death-row inmate at Raleigh’s Central Prison. Hembree was found guilty last…

Tiny Little Laws

by Kathy Dobie,

A plague of sexual violence in Indian country