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This algorithm wasn’t supposed to keep people in jail, but it does in Louisiana
Louisiana inmates seeking parole are discovering that their fate will be decided not by humans – but by an algorithm.
The Menendez Brothers Became Model Prisoners. Will That Free Them?
More than 35 years after they killed their parents in Beverly Hills, Lyle and Erik Menendez are closer than ever to freedom.
American Prisons Don't Work. California Is Trying Something That Might.
Maybe it's just a sign of our angry and divided times, but I'm finding that critics often don't read past the headline or the ...
Netflix's 'Adolescence' Highlights the Need for Reform in Parenting
Parents have a duty of care to equip girls with the emotional and intellectual resources needed to confront misogyny ...
What the Supreme Court’s ruling on man wrongly deported to El Salvador says about presidential authority and the rule of law
The high court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego García, to the ...
El Salvador’s Exceptional Prison State
The people of El Salvador lived in fear of gangs for decades. Then President Nayib Bukele decided enough was enough. What ...
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Trump’s Immigration Tactics Obstruct Efforts To Avert Bird Flu Pandemic, Researchers Say
Preventing and detecting bird flu infections among farmworkers is a key defense against a potential pandemic. Immigration ...
The New Republic2dOpinion
Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.
Pod Save America host Jon Favreau also took aim at Trump’s deal-making prowess, writing, on X, “Art of the Deal: 1) Impose ...
The New Republic2dOpinion
Justice Department Lawyers Ditch Rather Than Defend Trump in Court
A new poll from Economist/YouGov released Wednesday shows that Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped from +5 to -29 ...
Antelope Valley Press2d
County, public criticize jail closure team
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and members of the public heard an update from the team tasked with closing the Men’s Central Jail on Tuesday, ...
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The conditions inside the infamous El Salvador prison where deported migrants are held
The U.S. has sent hundreds of people to the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT. William Brangham discussed ...
In notorious Salvadoran prison, US deportees live in identical cells to convicted gangsters
Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday, during an ...