A group of people, wearing blue prison uniforms with the words "CDCR prisoner" on their backs, walk through a prison yard.
Closing Argument August 31, 2024
How Efforts to Cut Long Prison Sentences Have Stalled
Crime victim advocates and conservative groups are resisting moves to revisit “truth-in-sentencing” laws.
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Silhouettes of about 11 people stand in a line outside. An overpass bridge and parked cars can be seen in the background.
Closing Argument August 24, 2024
How a Drop in Border Crossings May Change the Presidential Campaign
The Democratic National Convention sought to address one of the party’s biggest weaknesses with voters.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey speaks during a conference at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City on Aug. 1, 2024. Bailey has aggressively pushed back on efforts by local prosecutors and judges to toss out convictions of people with innocence claims.
Closing Argument August 17, 2024
How Prosecutors Fight Exonerations
As laws are passed to support the wrongfully convicted, some officials in the legal system push back.
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A photo shows the sun beaming above silhouettes of two people holding a board while another person constructs a wall of a makeshift prison cell.
Closing Argument August 10, 2024
‘Deliberate Indifference’: Court Rulings Challenge Extreme Heat Conditions in Prisons
“If it’s 103 outside, it may be 107 to -8 inside of your cell,” said a man who worked in the fields while imprisoned in Texas.
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A Black man, wearing a black suit, looks to the left while standing in front of a memorial on a street.
Election 2024 July 31, 2024
Courts Cleared Jaleel Stallings. Trump’s Campaign Pulled Him Back Into the Political Muck.
Stallings was acquitted after an encounter with police during George Floyd protests in 2020, and one officer pleaded guilty to assaulting him.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia on Jan. 23, 2024.
Closing Argument July 27, 2024
What These Decisions Tell Us About Kamala Harris’ Approach to Criminal Justice
From the death penalty to school truancy and diversion programs, here are some key steps Harris took as a district attorney and attorney general.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, an Indian and Black woman with medium skin tone wearing a black suit, looks to the left while holding a microphone. She is sitting on a chair in front of three American flags.
Election 2024 July 21, 2024
5 Things to Know About Kamala Harris’ Criminal Justice Record
Here’s where Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor, stands on important criminal justice issues.
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Former President Donald Trump, a White man wearing a black suit and red tie, looks down. There are small studio lights in the background.
Closing Argument July 20, 2024
How Project 2025 Plans for Trump to Have Unprecedented Power Over the Justice Department
The policy plan for a second Trump term would turn the department against progressive local prosecutors.
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A photo diptych shows former President Donald Trump, a White man wearing a dark blue suit and red tie, gesturing with his arm, on the left, and President Joe Biden, a White man in a dark blue suit and striped blue and white tie, gesturing with his arm, on the right.
Election 2024 June 27, 2024
Crime Rates and the 2024 Election: What You Need to Know
As crime data again becomes a flashpoint in the presidential campaign, experts push for better national statistics.
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An incarcerated man, wearing a gray sweater and blue pants, places a basket of harvested turnips onto a cart. Prison farm workers, wearing blue uniforms, are standing in a field in the background.
Closing Argument June 22, 2024
The New Battle Over an Old Institution: Forced Prison Labor
Inside the latest legal and legislative efforts to close state constitutional loopholes that allow slavery as punishment for a crime.
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