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November 25, 2024
How California’s Embrace of a Tough-on-Crime Measure May Undo a Decade of Reform
Victoria Valenzuela
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May 24, 2024
Oklahoma Gives Incarcerated Survivors of Domestic Violence A New Chance at Freedom
Victoria Law
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March 12, 2024
Pennsylvania Reckons with Its Draconian Laws on Life Imprisonment
Victoria Law
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February 2, 2024
A Wave of States Reduce “Death by Incarceration” for Young Adults
Daniel Nichanian
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January 24, 2024
Under the Shadow of the Extreme Case
Piper French
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January 10, 2024
Louisiana Organizers Brace for Landry
Piper French
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December 11, 2023
Inside the Urgent Campaign to Commute North Carolina’s Entire Death Row
Kelan Lyons
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June 29, 2023
“Just an Opportunity to Come Home”
Daniel Nichanian
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May 30, 2023
Sentencing Reforms for Domestic Abuse Survivors Derail in Oklahoma
Victoria Law
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April 11, 2023
Domestic Violence Survivors Seek a Pathway Out of Louisiana Prisons
Victoria Law
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April 15, 2022
Sentencing Reform Divides Charlotte DA Race
Lauren Gill
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March 17, 2022
Waiting for a Second Look
Will Lennon
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February 10, 2022
Longstanding Grievances Between Prosecutor and Public Defender Boil Over in California DA Race
Piper French
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April 28, 2021
Some Manhattan D.A. Candidates Draw A Line Against Life in Prison Sentences
Sam Mellins
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April 9, 2021
Oregon’s Tough-on-Crime D.A. Association Faces a Reckoning
Piper French
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March 11, 2021
‘Life Sentences Are Death Sentences.’ How This D.A. Candidate Wants to Decarcerate Manhattan
Daniel Nichanian
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December 18, 2020
How States Transformed Criminal Justice in 2020, and How They Fell Short
Daniel Nichanian
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August 21, 2019
Governor’s Race Could Decide If Louisiana’s Prison Population Continues to Shrink
Daniel Nichanian
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February 28, 2019
Reformers Target Life Imprisonment and Sentences of Life Without Parole
Daniel Nichanian
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December 6, 2018
Looming Appointments Could Alter Florida Supreme Court’s Sentencing Outlook
Daniel Nichanian
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