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A constitutional law professor provides insight on what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, could mean for how that court works.

People who have had interactions with the criminal justice system as defendants continue to face barriers, even after paying their debt to society.

People who have had interactions with the criminal justice system as defendants continue to face barriers, even after paying their debt to society.

A constitutional law professor provides insight on what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, could mean for how that court works.

A constitutional law professor provides insight on what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, could mean for how that court works.

The United States government is the single largest purchaser of psychotropic drugs in the world by far. As a citizenry, we have to ask: Why?

वाशिंगटन: अमेरिका में एक बार फिर से कोविड संक्रमण का कहर तेजी से बढ़ता ही जा रहा है। इसका प्रभाव अमेरिका की जेलों में भी अब दिखाई देने लगा है... | News Track

Formerly incarcerated Americans face food insecurity rates double that of the general population. A 1996 law that prohibits drug felons from getting crucial benefits may be partially to blame.

Sunday, 11 Apr 2021 05:54 PM MYT Wearing a T-shirt he designed himself, Kendrick Fulton, who was released to home confinement due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, poses for a photo in Round Rock, Texa, April 8, 2021. — Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. WASHINGTON, April 11 — For Kendrick Fulton, the Covid-19 pandemic opened the door to an unexpected opportunity to rebuild his life in Round Rock, Texas, after serving...

Last modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 09.30 EST Every morning for almost 44 years, Albert Woodfox would awake in his 6ft by 9ft concrete cell and brace himself for the day ahead. He was America’s longest-serving solitary confinement prisoner, and each day stretched before him identical to the one before. Did he have the strength, he would ask himself, to endure the torture of his prolonged isolation? Or might this be the day when he would finally lose his mind and, like so many others on the tier,...