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A woman who prosecutors say spent nearly two years confined in a room with only a mattress, pen, and paper…
Jeremy Cucinella first suspected college kids like him were being scammed starting around 2005. He was taking a biology class…
High Wire is Maia Szalavitz’s reported opinion column on drugs and drug policy.Way back in the 1980s, when I was…
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From my time inside America’s vast penal system, I know a certain fraction of inmates follow politics closely, while most…
A few weeks ago, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat down at a panel at South by Southwest and did what…
The man long suspected of killing two people in rural Wisconsin and holding their 13-year-old daughter, Jayme Closs, captive for…
A version of this story was originally published on The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news outlet.Melissa Morales was riding…
On an early December night in 2016, residents of the Vulcan, a massive live-work warehouse space in the Fruitvale neighborhood…
“He took my cab and my money,” T.W. Brown told a Liberty, South Carolina, cop as he lay bleeding just…