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‘A Ticking Time Bomb’: City Jails Are Crowded Again, Stoking Covid Fears
New York City released hundreds of people as the pandemic raged. Now jails are full again, and an increase in infections could spread the virus beyond their walls.


How Did the ‘Worst of the Worst’ Become 3 Out of 4?
Merrick Garland can bring bail reform to the federal justice system.

Did Tennessee Execute an Innocent Man?
If DNA exonerates Sedley Alley, it could hasten an end to capital punishment.

The New Menendez Defenders
Young people are making impassioned arguments for the release of Lyle and Erik Menendez. Why now?
3 New Jersey prison guards accused in attack, cover-up at women's prison
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said prosecutors found that the guards tried to cover up the attack at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women by filing false reports.

It’s Time for Police to Stop Lying to Suspects
innocent people are in jail because detectives tricked them

The High-Risk Group Left Out of New York’s Vaccine Rollout
Virus cases are surging among incarcerated people at prisons and jails. But state officials have not announced when they will be vaccinated.

Is an Innocent Man Still Languishing on Death Row?
We’ve seen the DNA evidence in the Kevin Cooper case. It points elsewhere.


A federal judge has granted a stay of execution for the only woman on federal death row pending a competency hearing
A federal judge granted Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, a stay of execution pending a competency hearing — just hours before she was scheduled to die. to life imprisonment because she suffered sexual abuse from a young age. A federal judge issued a stay in her case late Monday.

First Woman to Face Federal Execution Since 1953 Seeks Reprieve
Lisa M. Montgomery is seeking to have her sentence for a gruesome murder reduced to life imprisonment because she suffered sexual abuse from a young age. A federal judge issued a stay in her case late Monday.

Michigan man exonerated of murder nearly 40 years later: 'I lived knowing one day I'd be free'
Walter Forbes was convicted on the testimony of a woman who now says she lied.


'Longest-serving cannabis offender' to be released early from 90-year prison sentence
Richard DeLisi was sentenced in 1989 for conspiring to traffic more than 100 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. from Jamaica.