Pennsylvania Replaced Prison Mail With Photocopies. Inmates and Their Families Are Heartbroken.
Mother Jones illustration; Letters courtesy of FAMM, Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since his daughter first learned to use a pen, Joseph Onzik has looked forward to her letters. He reads them from a cell in a state prison in Pennsylvania, where he’s been locked up for about five…
Native Women Are Already Extremely Vulnerable to Domestic Violence. Congress Is About to Make It Worse.
The family of a missing Native woman cries during a traditional blanket dance on a Montana Indian reservation in July. Statistics show that Native women are at greater risk of abuse or to go missing.David Goldman/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Taryn Minthorn was living on an Indian reservation in…
Dallas Police Officer Indicted for Murder After Shooting an Unarmed Black Man in His Own Apartment
This file photo provided by the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office shows Amber Guyger.Sheriff’s Office via AP, File Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A former Dallas police officer has been indicted on a murder charge for killing an unarmed black man in his own apartment in September. Amber Guyger, a white…
Police Acknowledge They Killed the Wrong Person in Alabama Mall Shooting
ABC 33/40/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thanksgiving night Hoover, Alabama, police shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., who was known as E.J., at a shopping mall after an altercation left an 18-year-old and a 12-year-old with gun shot injuries. Around 10:00 p.m. at the Riverchase Galleria mall…
A Gunman Targeted Their Church, Here’s How They Remember that Day
fstop123/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late October a few hours after the weekly noontime Bible study, Travis Hines didn’t know that a gunman was outside. The 43-year-old Family Life Director at the First Baptist Church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, was inside the church with a few of his colleagues, when a…
An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path Officials Took Is a Mystery.
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It was a grisly scene inside Apartment 3722 at the Hamptons, a gated community in Tampa, Florida. One body lay face up on the floor, wedged between a wall and an air mattress. A handgun was stuffed in…