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A rash of proposed Florida laws use 'genocidal rhetoric' to attack trans people, legal experts say
New bills take aim at doctors providing trans health care and change custody law to classify provid…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert,…
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Reform Alliance taps Amir Junaid Muhadith, formerly known as the rapper Loon, to serve on a new fellowship program, joining in efforts to revamp the US probation and parole systems
Amir Junaid Muhadith, formerly known as the rapper Loon, joins the Reform Alliance as the criminal …
John Lynch
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California just made it easier for inmate firefighters to become professionals, allowing them to have their nonviolent criminal records wiped clean
Over 1,200 incarcerated people are helping fight fires in California. Now they stand a better chanc…
Charles Davis
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Experts say Bernie Sanders' call to allow people in prisons to vote would cause a monumental shift in the US prison system
Snead said voting rights shouldn't be given a "unique" status in conversations surrounding the civi…
John Haltiwanger
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Stop comparing pandemic lockdowns to prison. As a formerly incarcerated person, what we went through over the last year is nothing compared to prison.
Understandably, the lockdown limited many people's movement and comfort. As a formerly incarcerated…
Ashish Prashar
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Should Derek Chauvin face 30 years in prison? Criminal justice reform advocates say a long sentence would do more harm than good
"People do have a right to celebrate a guilty verdict," said activist Katherin Hervey. "However, ou…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Dallas is saving $30 million by cutting down on the number of mentally ill people in prison, with help from a new predictive analytics tool
On average, HarrisLogic evaluates 350 prisoners each month. Half of these prisoners go through the …
Aria Bendix
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I'm incarcerated at San Quentin prison for 55 years to life. I didn't think things could get worse until COVID-19.
San Quentin State Prison in California has one of the biggest clusters of coronavirus cases in the …
Rahsaan Thomas
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COVID allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars?
4,500 federal prisoners were approved for home confinement to reduce overcrowding during the corona…
Jamie Roth
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This call center company relies on a workforce of incarcerated women to help companies like Microsoft, SAP, and Dell power their customer support
While it's good that Televerde and companies like it provide jobs to current and former prisoners, …
Rosalie Chan
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Take a look inside the prison Mark Zuckerberg visited that teaches inmates how to code
Through a San Francisco-based bootcamp called Code.7370, inmates are selected to learn how to progr…
Lyanne Alfaro
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2020 candidate Andrew Yang promises to legalize marijuana and pardon all non-violent drug offenders on 4/20 if he's elected
The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world and also has the highest overall number of p…
John Haltiwanger
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Most Americans approve of the bipartisan, Trump-backed criminal-justice reforms that the Senate just passed
SurveyMonkey Audience polls from a national sample balanced by census data of age and gender. Respo…
Michelle Mark
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Read the email Expensify's CEO sent to customers on MLK Day outlining the company's plan to fight injustices with a 'highly experimental' crowdsourced campaign
Expensify will spend an extra $3 million in 2021 on efforts to tackle climate change, homelessness,…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Dutch prisons are closing because the country is so safe - and no one really knows why
So it's possible that the Dutch prison system might succeed, in other words, precisely because peop…
Chris Weller
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This Depressing Chart Reveals The Biggest Failure Of America's Criminal Justice System
In a recent New York Times column, the journalist Bill Keller criticized America's prisons as ineff…
Corey Adwar
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Supermax inmate writes op-ed for the New York Times about how to improve prisons
MOOCs are actually free, and prisons could easily offer them at little to no cost. As Lennon points…
Christina Sterbenz
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Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland is asking to be released early from a federal prison that's been called a 'breeding ground' for the coronavirus and where 6 inmates have already died
Thousands of inmates have been released in recent weeks in an attempt to stymie to spread of the no…
Paige Leskin
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The Trump administration's plans for the opioid crisis have leaked - here's what they are
The director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, has acknowledged already that w…
Lydia Ramsey
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As many as 100,000 incarcerated people in our jails and prisons will die from the coronavirus, unless the US acts now
So far, however, the vast majority of people who've gotten out are the ones who many would agree sh…