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Finding meaningful work after prison isn’t easy. Here’s how these women did.
Here are the personal stories of two previously incarcerated women now leading highly successful careers
D.C. could be the first U.S. city to decriminalize sex work. Here are arguments from both sides of the debate.
Sex workers weigh in on what decriminalization would mean for their own lives
What the victims of the country’s most prolific serial killer had in common
This week, the FBI announced that Samuel Little confessed to 93 murders spanning 35 years
October 9, 2019
October 9, 2019
Amber Guyger, off-duty police officer who killed an unarmed black man, found guilty of murder
The shooting touched off days of protests in Dallas and demands for police reform
October 1, 2019
October 1, 2019
In ‘Know My Name,’ Chanel Miller conveys the horror of sexual assault — and the failures of the criminal justice system
Earlier this month, Miller identified herself beyond ‘Emily Doe,’ as she was known in her 2016 sexual assault case against Brock Turner
A 6-year-old girl threw a tantrum in class. Then she was arrested.
In recent years, criminal justice advocates have raised concerns that in-school officers often criminalize common student misbehavior
September 23, 2019
September 23, 2019
An inmate screamed for help. Then she gave birth in her cell alone with no medical supervision, a lawsuit alleges.
‘That pain was indescribable, and what hurts me more though is the fact that nobody cared,’ Diana Sanchez said last year
August 29, 2019
August 29, 2019
‘I will not stop fighting’: 15 Jeffrey Epstein victims speak out in court
The women would have preferred a trial, but instead got a three-hour hearing
August 27, 2019
August 27, 2019
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirator, lived a quiet life in a seaside town in New England, neighbors say
She went by 'G' rather than her distinctive first name, according to neighbors, and kept largely to herself
August 16, 2019
August 16, 2019
Epstein’s death has far-reaching legal consequences, despite the fact that his criminal case will be dismissed
According to court documents, Epstein’s alleged crimes were enabled by a vast conspiracy of facilitators and recruiters