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These Savvy Women Have Made Black Lives Matter the Most Crucial Left-Wing...

Shamell Bell, left, Melina Abdullah and Povi-Tamu Bryant are key leaders of “leaderless” Black Lives Matter. (Photos by Shane Lopes) There was a time when Melina Abdullah wanted to be the next Maxine...

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Rare White House Accord With Koch Brothers on Sentencing Frays

Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner, left, and John Conyers Jr. last year. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times For more than a year, a rare coalition of liberal groups and libertarian-minded...

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A Conversation With Black Women on Race

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San Francisco Called a Model for Ending Mass Incarceration

San Francisco has rapidly reduced its jail and prison populations with a series of “best practices” innovations that have built on California’s well-publicized legislative reforms enacted since 2009,...

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U.S. Police Leaders, Visiting Scotland, Get Lessons on Avoiding Deadly Force

Scottish police officers simulated a riot at the Jackton training center in Glasgow, Scotland, where police leaders from throughout the United States gathered to discuss department tactics. Credit...

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Prosecutors Should Search for Justice Instead of Rushing to Judgment

In the last 20 years, two new technologies have shed a revealing light on American criminal justice: DNA and video recordings. DNA testing has revealed more wrongful convictions than almost anyone had...

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LA County Creating Task Force to Assist Formerly Incarcerated

A rally outside the county Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles Dec. 1 drummed up support for the creation of a task force to help former convicts take advantage of Proposition 47, a 2014...

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Using Prison Education to Fight Recidivism in California

This year, both liberals and conservatives have agreed that it’s time to end the “mass incarceration” produced by the “crackdown on crime” of 20 years ago. KCRW is exploring how California is handling...

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Locking Dads Up on Father’s Day

A list of names of child support violators in Tallahassee, Fla. (Mark Foley / Associated Press) Dads with child support debt should not be imprisoned — especially on Father’s Day For the roughly 17...

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Message to Board of Supervisors on Jailing Mentally Ill

Everything we know about mental illness argues against attempting to treat the mentally ill in a jail facility. Standard security procedures along with the trained-in control behaviors of law...

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