Warren Wants to Make It a Crime for Corporations to Lie to Regulators
Protesters, many of them children, took to the streets in Washington, DC, to demand action on climate change on September 20.Jeff Malet/Zuma In light of recent revelations that ExxonMobil determined as far back as 1982 that humankind had contributed to climate change and then withheld that knowledge from the public for almost four decades, Elizabeth Warren…
Is Chesa Boudin Radical Enough?
Chesa Boudin and his mother, Kathy Boudin, in the maximum security prison where she served her sentence for her involvement in the 1981 Brinks heist, which left three people dead.Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis via Getty Images “Look, I didn’t live through that time period,” Chesa Boudin says with a sigh. “I can’t imagine wanting to use violence…
A California Prisoner Ripped Out Her Eye and Ate It. It’s a Sign of a Bigger Crisis That the State Tried to Downplay.
A patient is moved after a session with a psychologist at the the mental health unit at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California, in 2014. Rich Pedroncelli/AP In July 2018, Dr. Michael Golding, the chief psychiatrist for California’s correctional department, visited a maximum-security prison near Sacramento to shadow a couple of psychiatrists there. At…
Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire
A large rectangle of red dirt on the flat expanse of West Texas’ Permian Basin reminds Sadrac Garcia every day of what his family has lost. A few months ago, he could stand on the small porch of his brother Juan’s double-wide and peer into the window of their parents’ trailer a few meters away.…
A 9-Year-Old Is Facing Murder Charges in Illinois. The Judge Had to Teach Him What “Arson” and “Alleged” Mean.
A trailer home that was destroyed by fire northeast of Goodfield, Illinois. Matt Dayhoff/Journal Star via AP On Monday, a nine-year-old boy in a checkered shirt sat in a juvenile court in Woodford County, Illinois, accused of murdering several of his relatives by setting fire to a mobile home. As he slid forward in his…
The Opioid Settlement Will Fund Desperate Counties—But Could Come at a Steep Cost
John Moore/Getty Just hours before a high-profile federal opioid trial was to begin in Cleveland on Monday morning, drug companies reached a $260 million settlement deal with Ohio’s Summit and Cuyahoga counties. The two counties are bellwether plaintiffs—test cases for how the more than 2,700 counties, cities, and tribal lands suing drug companies in the…