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Aeon
2016
Aljazeera America
2015
2014
The Appeal
2020
- Washington Sheriff Faces Recall Efforts for Endangering Public Health
- When Sheriffs Choose to Help Ice
- Protecting Rural Jails from Coronavirus
- California's Sheriffs Must Do More to Save Their Communities from the Ravages of Coronavirus
- What Sheriffs Can Do to Slow the Coronavirus Outbreak
- When A Sheriff's Jail Is Emptied
2019
- America's New 'Sheriff of the Year' Pushed to Allow Teachers to Carry Weapons in School
- How Sheriffs' Power and Autonomy Make Them Central Players for Policing Reform
- Jail Deaths and the Elected Sheriff
- The Opioid Crisis and the Elected Sheriff
- Are Sheriffs Necessary?
The Atlantic
2019
- The Repurposing of the American Jail
- Saved From Death Row, Only to Be Returned
- The Shocking Lack of Lawyers in Rural America
2015
2014
Atlas Obscura
2016
Boston Review
2014
Extraordinary Criminals: Why don’t corporate wrongdoers go to prison?
California's Prisons Fail the Mentally Ill (But They Can Change)
Catapult
2016
Columbia Journalism Review
2014
D Magazine
2018
Electric Literature
2012
2011
Esquire
2016
The Guardian
2018
2016
- 'The system failed her': behind a suicide spike at a California women's prison
- When prison guards are violent blame culture – not bad apples
2015
- Life as a transgender inmate: confronting a hostile system behind bars and in court
- After fleeing abuse, an immigrant mother faces losing her daughter forever
Guernica
2014
The Jon McComb Show
2015
JSTOR Daily
2015
LA Review of Books
2016
2015
- Especially Heinous: Guilt and the Prosecution of Sex Crimes
- The Legal Legacy of Citizen Four
- They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
2014
The Millions
2014
Missouri Review
2013
The Nation
2017
- 'We're Basically Guessing on These Cases': Louisiana's Disastrous Resentencing Hearings
- Restorative Justice for Shoplifting? A Court Calls It Extortion
- Prosecutors Are Banding Together to Prevent Criminal-Justice Reform
- The Troubled Resentencing of America's Juvenile Lifers
- This Islamophobic Conspiracy Theorist Is Training America's Cops
2016
- Is Angela Corey the Cruelest Prosecutor in America?
- Tim Atkins Was Wrongfully Imprisoned for 23 Years—Why Is California Denying Him Compensation?
- Anita Alvarez: The Prosecutor Who Punishes Children Like Adults
- How Will Philadelphia’s District Attorney Handle Resentencing Its Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Population?
Narratively
2015
2014
New Republic
2014
NPR
2015
Pacific Standard
2017
2016
2015
- To Have and to Hold: Consent and Intimacy for People With Alzheimer’s
- Can PTSD Be Linked to Violence?
- The Rise of Prison Nurseries
2014
Can Proposition 47 Solve California’s Problem With Mass Incarceration?
Building Better Prisons: Can an Architect Change the Way People Think About Incarceration?
Punished for Being Poor: The Problem With Using Big Data in the Justice System
Caring for the Condemned: Does It Make Sense to Treat the Mental Health of Someone Facing Execution?
The Permanent Record
2017
Politico
2019
Rolling Stone
2016
2015
San Francisco Magazine
2016
- Young and Locked Up in Silicon Valley
- The Crazy Injustice of Denying Exonerated Prisoners Compensation
Slate
2020
2017
- District Attorneys Gone Wild
- 55 Years Behind Bars
- Is the Centre County DA Using a Hazing Death to Get Good Press?
- "I've Read The New Jim Crow ...": How to tell if a prosecutor is only pretending to be a criminal justice reformer.
- Why Are the Courts Protecting Bad Cops?
- Is Capital Punishment Making a Comeback in Dallas?
TakePart
2016
- How One Woman Was Able to Forgive the Man Who Shot Her
- Unemployment Is a Full-Time Job
- Crippled by a Debt to the IRS