A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?ByAdditional data visualization and analysis by Tim Ryan Williams and Christina AnimashaunNext week, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will face each other for the first time on the debate stage. Some of the most pressing problems of our time will be front and center: the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court vacancy, and the fight for racial justice. So far, the candidates’ discussion of justice issues has focused less on how to address America’s longstanding...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?ByAdditional data visualization and analysis by Tim Ryan Williams and Christina AnimashaunNext week, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will face each other for the first time on the debate stage. Some of the most pressing problems of our time will be front and center: the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court vacancy, and the fight for racial justice. So far, the candidates’ discussion of justice issues has focused less on how to address America’s longstanding...WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?The power of child-abuse pediatric specialists and parents' unequal journey toward justiceByByy baby is not breathing,” Josue Santiago told the Racine, Wisconsin, 911 operator. “Oh my God, man, please send somebody. Please. Elihu. Elihu,” he said, repeating his son’s name.This article was published in partnership with . contributed reporting.Photos at top: Left, Glendalyz Galarza and Josue Santiago in Chicago; right, Daniel Namie and Molly Hayes with their children in suburban...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?The power of child-abuse pediatric specialists and parents' unequal journey toward justiceByByy baby is not breathing,” Josue Santiago told the Racine, Wisconsin, 911 operator. “Oh my God, man, please send somebody. Please. Elihu. Elihu,” he said, repeating his son’s name.This article was published in partnership with . contributed reporting.Photos at top: Left, Glendalyz Galarza and Josue Santiago in Chicago; right, Daniel Namie and Molly Hayes with their children in suburban...WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?Illustration by Ross SneddonAn Alabama man killed by a K-9 officer was one of thousands of Americans bitten by police dogs every year. Few ever get justice.ByBy , , , andhe tiny pink house was pretty much empty. And run-down and dark, since the electricity had been shut off. Nevertheless, someone was trying to burglarize it, a caller told 911 well after midnight on a Sunday in Montgomery, Alabama.The police called in a K-9 handler and his dog, Niko, to search 3809 Cresta Circle. The dog...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?Illustration by Ross SneddonAn Alabama man killed by a K-9 officer was one of thousands of Americans bitten by police dogs every year. Few ever get justice.ByBy , , , andhe tiny pink house was pretty much empty. And run-down and dark, since the electricity had been shut off. Nevertheless, someone was trying to burglarize it, a caller told 911 well after midnight on a Sunday in Montgomery, Alabama.The police called in a K-9 handler and his dog, Niko, to search 3809 Cresta Circle. The dog...WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?By andCoverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, criminal justice and immigration.An Arkansas county so rural it has just three incorporated towns and not a single stretch of interstate suddenly emerged this week as . Ground zero in Lincoln County, about an hour’s drive south of Little Rock, is the Cummins Unit, a state prison farm known for producing cotton, rice and eggs.A farm employee was the first to test positive in early April. Now 14 staffers and more than 680 of the prison’s nearly...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?By andCoverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, criminal justice and immigration.An Arkansas county so rural it has just three incorporated towns and not a single stretch of interstate suddenly emerged this week as . Ground zero in Lincoln County, about an hour’s drive south of Little Rock, is the Cummins Unit, a state prison farm known for producing cotton, rice and eggs.A farm employee was the first to test positive in early April. Now 14 staffers and more than 680 of the prison’s nearly...WW…

|See What Your Local Agency Received from the Department of DefenseWhat military equipment has your local police, sheriff or game warden received from the Pentagon? Click the dropdown to select your state and start sifting through the…|See What Your Local Agency Received from the Department of DefenseWhat military equipment has your local police, sheriff or game warden received from the Pentagon? Click the dropdown to select your state and start sifting through theWW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.ByByn Sept. 12, 2018, the five adult children of Debbie Liles waited in the prosecutor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, to meet the man who one year earlier had bludgeoned their mother to death with a golf club.Michelle, 38, had brought what she called her “madwoman” binder of colorfully highlighted police reports...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.ByByn Sept. 12, 2018, the five adult children of Debbie Liles waited in the prosecutor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, to meet the man who one year earlier had bludgeoned their mother to death with a golf club.Michelle, 38, had brought what she called her “madwoman” binder of colorfully highlighted police reports...WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?ByNot long after an Alabama lawyer named John Darrington began buying up land in Southeast Texas, he sent enslaved people to work the soil. They harvested , reaping profits for their absentee owner until he sold the .This article was published in partnership with .More than a century and a half later, men—mostly Black and brown—are still . They still . They still And they still face punishment if they refuse to work.They are prisoners at the Darrington Unit, one of Texas’s 104 prisons....…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?ByNot long after an Alabama lawyer named John Darrington began buying up land in Southeast Texas, he sent enslaved people to work the soil. They harvested , reaping profits for their absentee owner until he sold the .This article was published in partnership with .More than a century and a half later, men—mostly Black and brown—are still . They still . They still And they still face punishment if they refuse to work.They are prisoners at the Darrington Unit, one of Texas’s 104 prisons....WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?Byy the time Richard Midkiff walked out of a Florida prison last year at age 42, he had spent more than half his life behind bars for a crime he committed when he was 19.Midkiff has now restarted his life: A full-time paralegal in Ocala, Florida, and the president of the board of a national organization providing legal help to incarcerated people, he begins his busy workdays at 5 a.m. And last month, he proposed to his fiancée, Marianna Kuchma, on the beach.This story was published in...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?Byy the time Richard Midkiff walked out of a Florida prison last year at age 42, he had spent more than half his life behind bars for a crime he committed when he was 19.Midkiff has now restarted his life: A full-time paralegal in Ocala, Florida, and the president of the board of a national organization providing legal help to incarcerated people, he begins his busy workdays at 5 a.m. And last month, he proposed to his fiancée, Marianna Kuchma, on the beach.This story was published in...WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?By andAs protests over policing continue to convulse cities throughout the U.S., one symbol keeps showing up: a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe.Recently, the flag was from the back of a car alongside protests in South Dakota, and outside the Utah State Capitol. When deputies hoisted the flag outside government buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Orange, California, the sheriffs in both communities were sharply criticized. Officers have worn versions of the flag on face...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?By andAs protests over policing continue to convulse cities throughout the U.S., one symbol keeps showing up: a black-and-white American flag with one blue stripe.Recently, the flag was from the back of a car alongside protests in South Dakota, and outside the Utah State Capitol. When deputies hoisted the flag outside government buildings in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Orange, California, the sheriffs in both communities were sharply criticized. Officers have worn versions of the flag on face...WW…

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?By , andSeries Produced by andsimple question at a Bernie Sanders town hall last spring sparked a debate new to prime time: Should incarcerated people be allowed to vote? Sanders said yes—his home state of Vermont (and its neighbor, Maine) are the to give all people in prison that right. Later, Joe Biden said no.Yet in a country awash in political polling, the views of those who are most affected remain a mystery: the 2.3 million people behind bars. Do they want to vote? If given the...…A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice systemSearchProjectsTopicsAboutFeedback?By , andSeries Produced by andsimple question at a Bernie Sanders town hall last spring sparked a debate new to prime time: Should incarcerated people be allowed to vote? Sanders said yes—his home state of Vermont (and its neighbor, Maine) are the to give all people in prison that right. Later, Joe Biden said no.Yet in a country awash in political polling, the views of those who are most affected remain a mystery: the 2.3 million people behind bars. Do they want to vote? If given the...WW…