criminal-justice

Who’s Afraid of the Boston Bomber?

Liberals and conservatives alike use Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a boogeyman to deny prisoners their rights

Portland Exposes How Freely Police Kill Leftists — Like Black Panther Fred Hampton

Over and over, our justice system fails to actually uphold the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty

As COVID Deaths Mount, Prison Wives Are Fighting to Save the Men They Love

With the penal system as callous as ever and coronavirus ravaging California prisons, they fear they’re the only thing standing between life and death for their husbands

‘How to Fix a Drug Scandal’ Is a Deft Takedown of the War on Drugs

The new Netflix true-crime series is ostensibly about the shocking illegal exploits of chemists Sonja Farak and Annie Dookhan, but you may end up having sympathy for them — as well as for the thousands of addicts caught in our broken judicial system