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Women share abortion experiences, worry about reproductive care in a state with high maternal mortality rates.

Savannahs community reacts to the Supreme Court ruling Friday that Americans no longer have a constitutional right to abortion.

A report released by Deep Center in partnership with the Vera Institute for Justice and the Southern Center for Human Rights attempts to answer this question.

A Chatham County nonprofit examines what changes need to be made for bail reform in the county.

An unprecedented leak of a draft opinion published on Monday indicates the Supreme Court would overturn the constitutional right to abortion.

Two Georgia district attorneys are among those criticizing a bill to require cash bail before anyone charged with a felony could be released from jail, saying it could maroon poor people behind bars and reduce access to pretrial diversion and alternative courts.

Students deserve and need an accurate and honest education, teachers deserve the trust to educate our young people truthfully.

Mass incarceration culture promotes notion of continued punishment for those who commit legal offenses

Reforming the cash bail system benefits both the accused and taxpayers Sara E. Murphy, For Beacon Magazine Published 7:21 am UTC Feb. 10, 2021 Beacon Magazine and the Savannah Morning News explore the effects of race and class discrimination in Savannah institutions and offer solutions to overcoming the obstacles that divide us. A fundamental tenet of the American criminal justice system is its presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, yet 74 percent of people in U.S. jails ...

Beacon letter from the associate editor: Keep going Savannah. Youve got this. Ariel Felton Dear Reader, Back in October Amy Condon, my friend and the usual associate editor of Beacon, asked me to serve as guest editor  for Volume 2/Issue 4 — which focuses on the intersection of race and class in Savannah. So, let me introduce myself. I grew up in Byron, a tiny town in the center of Georgia. Savannah has enchanted me since I was a little girl and my family vacationed here in the summer. We fe...