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Criminal Justice
sam bankman-fried
Oct. 16, 2023
SBF’s New Plan to Win in Court: Adderall Does the fallen crypto CEO actually need his meds, or is this another game?
By Kevin T. Dugan
jeffrey epstein
June 2, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein Once Had Chlamydia and Tried to Contact Larry Nassar From Jail And other revelations from the latest report on the sex criminal’s final days in jail.
By Matt Stieb
The Case of the Fake Sherlock Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler at murder trials, at forensic conferences, and on true-crime TV. In reality, he was a fraud.
By David Gauvey Herbert
the city politic
Mar. 7, 2023
One Lawyer, Three Jobs, 106 Cases The city’s public defenders are struggling.
By Nia Prater
Kanye West Can Be Bipolar and Accountable for His Antisemitism The case for holding someone accountable for harmful actions does not rest on whether they had full agency over their behavior.
By Eric Levitz
Why Is the Firing Squad Making a Comeback? South Carolina’s push to bring back an archaic execution method says a lot about the state of capital punishment today.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
criminal justice
Apr. 11, 2022
The Case Against Bail Reform Was Always a Tabloid Mirage For the rollback to succeed, New Yorkers would have to be made to feel afraid of where they live.
By Nick Pinto
How New York’s Bail-Reform Law Became a Political Lightning Rod Amid a pandemic-era spike in violent crime, critics of the 2019 legislation have put supporters like Governor Hochul on the defensive.
By Nia Prater
the city politic
Feb. 20, 2022
Judges Can Be Dangerous, Too Mayor Adams and other bail-reform opponents want judges to be able to use “dangerousness” to set bail, but that comes with its own perils.
By Errol Louis
criminal justice
Jan. 21, 2022
Is Solitary Confinement Here to Stay at Rikers Island? The movement to ban it slammed into a wall of opposition, first from Bill de Blasio and now from Eric Adams.
By Matt Stieb
criminal justice
Jan. 12, 2022
By Lara Bazelon
criminal justice
Jan. 5, 2022
Alvin Bragg to Do Away With Prison Time for Most Crimes The new Manhattan DA will stop prosecuting lower-level offenses ranging from prostitution to fare evasion.
By Benjamin Hart
lgbtq rights
Dec. 15, 2021
She Supported Her Child Being Trans. So the State Separated Them. Thanks to a crackdown on LGBTQ families, the case of Katee Churchill could be just the beginning.
By Roxanna Asgarian
criminal justice
Dec. 11, 2021
This Wasn’t About Jussie Smollett The actor’s trial was a proxy for a very different fight.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
ahmaud arbery
Nov. 24, 2021
The Legal Uses of Blackness Why attorneys in the Ahmaud Arbery case did — and didn’t— invoke his race.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
It’s Andrew Cuomo’s Turn to Face Justice The disgraced governor has favored tough-on-crime policies — except for people like him.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Everyone in San Francisco Has Something to Say About Chesa Chesa Boudin is the nation’s most progressive prosecutor in one of the country’s most liberal cities. Now, many residents are trying to throw him out.
By Daniel Duane
book excerpt
July 8, 2021
The Female Inmates Fighting California’s Wildfires “Your feet have a pulse of their own. Your face feels like it’s about to melt off.”
By Jaime Lowe
criminal justice
July 5, 2021
When Will Joe Biden Start Using His Clemency Powers? The president has signaled he wants to grant more pardons and commutations. The time to begin is now.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
criminal justice
July 1, 2021
Progressives Don’t Need to Downplay Rising Homicides Victims of community violence deserve the left’s solidarity and policy solutions.
By Eric Levitz
the city politic
May 19, 2021
Who Will Replace Cy Vance As Manhattan District Attorney? A crowded field of progressives could spell victory for Wall Street’s favored candidate.
By James D. Walsh
2021 elections
Apr. 23, 2021
‘It’s Not Enough to Be Progressive. You Have to Have Been There.’ Tahanie Aboushi is running to be Manhattan DA after her own family was prosecuted.
By Sarah Jones
America Saw a Historic Rise in Murders in 2020. Why? “If you wanted to think of this as potentially erasing several decades worth of progress, that wouldn’t be an overstatement,” says one expert.
By Jesse Singal
Trump Is Killing People on His Way Out of the White House The president’s definition of “law and order” is a bloody one.
By Sarah Jones
Alfre Woodard Discusses Police Violence and the Ending of Clemency Her film about state-sanctioned violence has one of the most striking endings of any film in the past few years.
By Angelica Jade Bastién
police unions
Aug. 18, 2020
The Inevitable Trump-Police Union Alliance How a New York City police union’s rare endorsement of Trump explains their shared ideology.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
2020 elections
Aug. 14, 2020
The ‘Tough on Crime’ Ticket The historical irony of a Biden-Harris ticket during a criminal-justice reckoning.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
What Are Kamala Harris’s Policies? Where she stands on health care, racial justice, policing, and more.
By Hannah Gold
Everything We Know About the Killing of George Floyd Newly released body cam footage suggests the officers involved adopted an aggressive stance from the outset.
By Hannah Gold
bill de blasio
Aug. 8, 2020
Bill de Blasio Is Using New York’s Murder Rate to Demagogue The mayor doesn’t know why murder rates have risen in the city. But he’s using them for political purposes anyway.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
death penalty
July 15, 2020
The Capricious Execution of Daniel Lewis Lee The federal government has put its first prisoner to death in 17 years. It’s still unclear why.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
george floyd protests
June 3, 2020
All 4 Officers in George Floyd Case Now Face Charges Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison raised the charges against Derek Chauvin, allowing him to charge three other former police officers.
By Ed Kilgore
Cops Get Away With Murder Because They’re Popular The police are legally unaccountable because they’re politically powerful. Reforms must attack — and circumvent — the sources of their power.
By Eric Levitz
Protests Erupt over George Floyd’s Death in Police Custody Hundreds of people took to the streets; police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd.
By Hannah Gold
The ‘Law and Order’ Trap Some Democrats are agitating for Biden to try to get to the right of the Republican Party on crime. They shouldn’t.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
mass incarceration
May 14, 2020
Pregnant Woman Held in Coronavirus-Ridden Jail Over Traffic Violations Diamond Davis was pulled over for driving with temporary plates, then had to spend the night in jail during a coronavirus outbreak.
By Hannah Gold
ahmaud arbery
May 8, 2020
Never Stop Running On the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Who ‘Deserves’ Jail During a Pandemic? The Cook County Jail in Chicago is America’s biggest coronavirus hotspot. Why did we allow this?
By Zak Cheney-Rice
coronavirus
Mar. 27, 2020
Coronavirus Fears Spark Prison Strikes, Protests, and Riots Around the World From Colombia to France to the U.S., prisoners are struggling to protect themselves where their jailers won’t.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
death penalty
Mar. 24, 2020
Colorado Abolishes the Death Penalty, Becoming the 22nd State to Do So Governor Jared Polis obeyed COVID-19 era social distancing mandates and announced his historic signing via press release.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
coronavirus
Mar. 24, 2020
Officials Are Using the Coronavirus to Expand the Criminal-Justice System Officials are asking for — and doling out — increased law-enforcement power.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
coronavirus
Mar. 14, 2020
Pandemics Are a Great Reason to De-carcerate Coronavirus could wreak havoc on jails and prisons. If their inhumane conditions weren’t a self-evident reason to shrink them, this should be.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
criminal justice
Mar. 8, 2020
On Criminal Justice, Biden Has No Moral Standing Over Trump One of Trump’s main general election strategies will be contrasting the two men’s records. And it looks bad for Biden.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
Black Protesters Might Have Doomed Amy Klobuchar’s Presidential Campaign The day before she dropped out of the race, Klobuchar canceled a campaign rally in Minnesota due to protests.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
criminal justice
Feb. 25, 2020
By Zak Cheney-Rice
immigration
Feb. 24, 2020
Biden and Bernie Pivoted on Deportations. America Must Go Even Further. Temporary moratoriums and only deporting “violent criminals” isn’t enough.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
michael bloomberg
Feb. 21, 2020
Op-Ed Asks: ‘Is Bloomberg Racist?’ Voters Should Answer: ‘Who Cares?’ To argue that Bloomberg’s policies as mayor were racist because he’s dense rather than evil is not consoling.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
The Lesson Trump Pardonees Learned in Prison: Prison Is Brutal and Unfair The Trump era is marked by many people’s dawning realization of how awful prison is when they personally have to endure it.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
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