Transparency Laws Let Criminal Records Become Commodities
By Sarah Lageson Wired In April 2018, Adnan (a pseudonym) was wrongfully arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on the basis of an incorrect arrest warrant. A brief period in jail led […]
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The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away
By Carissa Byrne Hessick The Atlantic The Bill of Rights exists to protect individuals. It protects the right to free speech, the right to due process, the right to counsel, and […]
How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer
By Raffi Khatchadourian The New Yorker On Thanksgiving morning, 1987, Rick Bart, a homicide detective in Snohomish County, Washington, got word that a pheasant hunter had discovered a body in […]
Cases of Missing Trans People are Rarely Solved. A Married Pair of Forensic Genealogists is Hoping to Change That
By Erica Lentl Xtra They found Markham Doe among the evergreens on the east side of 11th Concession, in Markham, Ontario, on July 16, 1980. It was a humid, rainy […]
After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules
By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]
Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women
By Jeannie Suk Gersen The New Yorker In January, I was outlining an article I hoped to write about a recent judgment by a South Korean court ordering Japan to […]
Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t
By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]
Racial Tensions in America’s ‘Sundown Towns’
By Tim Sullivan & Noreen Nasir Associated Press Ask around this time-battered Midwestern town, with its empty storefronts, dusty antique shops and businesses that have migrated toward the interstate, and […]
The Little Cards That Tell Police ‘Let’s Forget This Ever Happened’
By Katie Way Vice Mike, a white man in his 50s, was in a bad spot: He was stuck idling in traffic on New York City’s Riverside Drive, running late […]
This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call
By Christie Thompson The Marshall Project On a rainy June day, the manager of a Motel 6 outside Olympia decided one guest had to leave. The woman had been smoking […]
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