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The Only People Who Care About Donald Trump's List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees Don't Matter
Jordan Sargent · 05/18/16 02:41PMThis afternoon, Donald Trump released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices. Unless you play Fantasy Federal Judge there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of any of these people, which is good, because Trump has already shown that the sort of people who have heard of these potential justices are completely irrelevant.
Judge Resigns After Prosecutors Find Thousands of Photos of Nude Defendants on Computer
Hudson Hongo · 05/09/16 08:40PMMan Wrongfully Convicted of Murder Exonerated After 52 Years
Hudson Hongo · 05/02/16 11:17PMMore than half a century after he says police pressured him into confessing to a crime he did not commit, 81-year-old Paul Gatling has finally cleared his name. On Monday, the Brooklyn District Attorney fully vacated Gatling’s wrongful 1964 conviction for murder, a crime for which he served 10 years in prison, The New York Times reports.
Hamilton Nolan · 04/04/16 01:00PM
Thousands of Prisoners Are Doubled Up in Claustrophobic Solitary Cells
Hamilton Nolan · 03/31/16 11:12AMInnocent Man Exonerated After 25 Years in Prison
Hamilton Nolan · 03/11/16 10:11AMIn Louisiana, People Are Going to Jail Without Ever Getting a Lawyer
Andy Cush · 03/08/16 12:06PML.A. Spends a Ton of Money to Treat Juveniles Poorly
Hamilton Nolan · 03/07/16 11:07AMJustice Wants Apple to Unlock at Least Twelve Other iPhones
Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/23/16 09:29AMA Notorious Former L.A. Sheriff Could Soon Be in Jail
Hamilton Nolan · 02/12/16 09:48AMAmerica's Great Friend Saudi Arabia Will Whip a Poet For His Poetry
Hamilton Nolan · 02/03/16 10:53AMHow Prison Robs You of Your Words
Hamilton Nolan · 01/25/16 10:10AMConnecticut Wants to Keep People Under 21 Out of the Adult Justice System
Hamilton Nolan · 12/29/15 12:29PMCalifornia Prison Is a Racist, Violent Nightmare
Hamilton Nolan · 12/18/15 01:50PMHere's Your Martin Shkreli Perp Walk Schadenfreude Gallery
Sam Biddle · 12/17/15 12:12PMThe Death Penalty Is a Terminal Patient
Hamilton Nolan · 12/16/15 08:59AMTake a Minute to Send a Holiday Message to a Prison Rape Survivor
Hamilton Nolan · 12/03/15 04:11PMVeterans and the Death Penalty
Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/15 09:00AMWhat We Are Getting Wrong About Police Reform
Vann R. Newkirk II · 11/09/15 12:50PMAre there too many police or are there too few? In the months since Black Lives Matter activists first organized protests against police violence, the concept of over-policing has become key in understanding the dynamic against which they fight, especially in dramatically over-policed places like Ferguson. Some opponents contend that black communities are actually under-policed, citing rates of violent crime and 911 response time as the reason to increase police presence. The focus on numbers, however, belies the fact that both over- and under-policing have been used to oppress black communities.