Americans Are Starting to Like the Death Penalty Again
Chuck Berman/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last two decades, public support for the death penalty has been on the decline. In 2016, the number of people in favor of capital punishment was 49 percent—the lowest it had been in more than 40 years. But a new Pew…
For Black Lives Activists, Engaging in Trump’s Pardon Politics Feels Like a Deal With the Devil
Trump granted clemency to Alice Marie Johnson (left, with daughter) after hearing a personal plea from Kim Kardashian West. Adrian Sainz Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last Wednesday, Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who served more than 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense,…
A Private Prison Company Gave 1,300 Recordings of Confidential Inmate Phone Calls to Prosecutors
Thinkstock/ Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than 1300 private conversations between a private prison’s inmates and their lawyers were recorded according to information in a new lawsuit against CoreCivic, the private company running the facility, and its technology provider Securus Technologies. Numerous charges and convictions against the inmates…
Jared Kushner’s Prison Reform Plan Just Passed the House With Van Jones’ Support
Jared KushnerOlivier Douliery/ Abaca Press(Sipa via AP Images) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump just scored a victory on criminal justice reform, and some Democrats are actually pleased. In a 360-59 vote, the House of Representatives approved a prison bill on Tuesday that the president and his son-in-law, Jared…
How Trial by Skype Became the Norm in Immigration Court
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rob DobiTess Feldman stood in an empty San Francisco courtroom, facing a three-foot-wide television screen. “Good morning!” she shouted toward a camera connected to the TV. “Can you hear me?” A stunned-looking man in an orange prison jumpsuit appeared on screen. An inmate at the Mesa…
A Connecticut Prison Has a Radical New Plan to Keep Young Inmates From Coming Back
This story was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Leona Godfrey was sitting down to dinner at a TGI Fridays in Orange, Connecticut, in December 2013 when she glanced at a television and saw her little brother’s name on the local news. Davon Eldemire…