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Criminal Justice

Accountability in Crime and Law

462 stories published since 2008

Time Spent in Solitary Confinement Drops Dramatically in Illinois Youth Facilities

by Duaa Eldeib,

For Some Youths, ‘Minor’ Offenses Lead to Major Sentences in Adult Prison

by Duaa Eldeib,

Why (Almost) No One Is Charged With Gun Trafficking in Illinois

by Mick Dumke,

Putting Crime Scene DNA Analysis on Trial

by Lauren Kirchner,

How Chicago Gets Its Guns

by Mick Dumke,

Vegas Judge Featured in ProPublica Story Reprimanded for Ethics Violations

by Megan Rose,

ProPublica Seeks Source Code for New York City’s Disputed DNA Software

by Lauren Kirchner,

The Freedom Plea: How Prosecutors Deny Exonerations by Dangling the Prison Keys

by Megan Rose,

What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty.

by Megan Rose,

Thousands of Criminal Cases in New York Relied on Disputed DNA Testing Techniques

by Lauren Kirchner,

Misdemeanor Defendants Facing Jail Time Not Told They Have a Right to Counsel, Bar Association Finds

by Topher Sanders,

On Rikers Island, a Move Toward Reform Causes Trouble

by Joaquin Sapien,

How (and Why) We’re Collecting Cook County Jail Data

by David Eads,

Houston Police End Use of Drug Tests That Helped Produce Wrongful Convictions

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Victims in Thousands of Potential Hate Crimes Never Notify Police

by Joe Sexton,

Former Texas Nurse Convicted of Baby-Killing Told Authorities ‘I Was Heinous.’

by Peter Elkind, special to ProPublica,

The Last Shot

by Alec MacGillis,

Despite Exposés and Embarrassments, Hundreds of Judges Preside in New York Without Law Degrees

by Joe Sexton,

Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government

by Jessica Huseman and Annie Waldman,

Nevada Passes Modest Measures to Curb Prosecutorial Misconduct

by Megan Rose,

Kafka in Vegas

by Megan Rose,

Vegas Judge Had Long History of Prosecutorial Misconduct

by Megan Rose,

Millions for New York Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder

by Joaquin Sapien,

Another Startling Verdict for Forensic Science

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Street Hustle: The Truth Behind the ‘New’ Police Tool for Confronting Fentanyl Menace

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Where Traditional DNA Testing Fails, Algorithms Take Over

by Lauren Kirchner,

New York City Police Receptive to Some Reforms of Nuisance Enforcement

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Unreliable and Unchallenged

by Ryan Gabrielson,

‘No Field Test is Fail Safe’: Meet the Chemist Behind Houston’s Police Drug Kits

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Busted

Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders,

System Failures

Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders,

Machine Bias

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm

Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

Alerted to Danger, New York City Failed to Curb Harm at Group Homes

by Joaquin Sapien,

Listen to Our Collaboration with ‘This American Life’

by ProPublica,

Officials Outraged After ‘Shocking’ Report on NYPD Kicking People Out of Homes

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

A Brutal Crime, Often Terribly Investigated

by T. Christian Miller,

Rape is Rape, Isn’t It?

by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Tom Meagher, The Marshall Project,

An Unbelievable Story of Rape

by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project,

Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here’s Why.

by Nikole Hannah-Jones,

Data-Driven Sentencing May Punish the Poor and More in MuckReads Weekly

by Terry Parris Jr.,

Police Brutality from Chicago to Gitmo and More in MuckReads Weekly

by Amanda Zamora and Terry Parris Jr.,

Deadly Force, in Black and White

by Ryan Gabrielson, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones,

The Best Reporting on Federal Push to Militarize Local Police

by Hanqing Chen,

Sentenced to Wait: Efforts to End Prison Rape Stall Again

by Joaquin Sapien,

Judge Throws Out Murder Charge in Mississippi Fetal Harm Case

by Nina Martin,

Missing: A Boy and The Evidence Against His Accused Killer

by Joaquin Sapien and Hanna Trudo,

Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them

by Joaquin Sapien,

Rape and Other Sexual Violence Prevalent in Juvenile Justice System

by Joaquin Sapien,

Hunger Strikes and Indefinite Detention: A Rundown on What’s Going on at Gitmo

by Cora Currier,