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Police Shootings

08.01.15

U.S. Department of Education Launches Second Chance Pell Pilot Program for Incarcerated Individuals

07.31.15

Global Decline of Capital Punishment Continues

07.29.15

Study Finds Stark Racial Disparities in Missouri Death Penalty

07.27.15

Glenn Ford Dies a Year After His Exoneration and Release from Louisiana's Death Row

07.22.15

African American Children Four Times as Likely to Live in Poverty as White Children

07.17.15

Confederate Flag Removed from South Carolina State House

07.15.15

Alabama Death Row Prisoner Carlos Kennedy Wins New Trial

07.13.15

Placement of Children in Adult Jails and Prisons Is Challenged

07.10.15

Study Finds 95 Percent of Prosecutors Are White

07.08.15

EJI Wins Ruling in Virginia That Juveniles Must Be Given a Meaningful Opportunity for Release

07.06.15

Connecticut Abolishes Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Sentences

07.02.15

Private Prisons

07.01.15

Supreme Court Justices Raise Questions About the Constitutionality of the Death Penalty

06.29.15

"Just Mercy" Wins Carnegie Medal for Best Nonfiction

06.28.15

Arkansas Supreme Court Holds Miller v. Alabama Is Retroactive

06.26.15