Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say ~life Article 509 words 32 votes
Lego requests California police department stop using their toy heads to cover suspect mugshots on social media ~tech social media Article 267 words 40 votes
AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death' ~tech Link 28 votes
Colorado Bureau of Investigation finds DNA scientist manipulated data in hundreds of cases over decades ~science Article 31 votes
What happens when prosecutors offer contradictory versions of the truth? ~misc Article 3071 words 26 votes
A lesson on US crime policy from game designers: Change the rules ~misc politics Article 1120 words, published Feb 1 2024 12 votes
Served: Opening a restaurant inside a prison ~food restaurants Video 37:21, published Sep 5 2023 5 votes
Family of Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus, imprisoned in Iran for more than 663 days, fear death penalty verdict is imminent ~misc politics Article 902 words 17 votes
How Iceland takes better care of its foreign criminal offenders than the rest of Europe ~life family Article 1004 words 9 votes
The man in room 117 – Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make? ~health.mental Article 4421 words, published Jan 28 2024 21 votes
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands ~food Article 5027 words 65 votes
What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account ~news usa.al crime politics Article 632 words 33 votes
Alexei Navalny disappears for three weeks; reappears at isolated Arctic penal colony ~news russia politics Article 29 votes
Polish political tensions ramp up as PiS politicians arrested at Presidential Palace ~news poland politics Article 233 words 16 votes
US President Joe Biden pardons thousands on federal marijuana charges, commutes others ~news usa law politics Article 77 words 79 votes
Wrongfully jailed for twenty years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation ~news australia crime Article 1139 words 18 votes
Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden ~humanities religion Article 448 words 26 votes
The curious case of the Danish spy chief and former minister may be over, but key questions about secrecy and democracy remain ~misc politics Article 863 words 6 votes
Years ago, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court decided, in secret, to systematically ignore petitions filed by prisoners, most of them black ~misc Article 8345 words 83 votes
Does “and” mean “and”? Or “or”? The US Supreme Court will decide. ~humanities.languages Article 1682 words 53 votes
Study shows US public defenders have significantly more clients than they can adequately represent ~humanities Article 2037 words, published Sep 12 2023 27 votes
The earthquakes in Türkiye killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability ~humanities Article 4840 words 9 votes
Hit in DNA database exonerates man forty-seven years after wrongful rape conviction ~humanities Article 642 words 30 votes
Ex-leader of Proud Boys sentenced to twenty-two years in Jan. 6 sedition case ~news usa crime politics Article 1710 words 39 votes
Two men exonerated thirty years after wrongful conviction thanks to retrocomputing enthusiasts and The Bloop Museum extracting data from a damaged floppy disc ~tech Link 60 votes
Victorian Aboriginal truth-telling inquiry calls for major overhaul of justice systems ~news australia.vic Article 1273 words 12 votes
Infographic status update on US defendants charged related to January 6 riot at the White House ~misc politics Link 23 votes
Proud Boy convicted of helping spearhead US Capitol attack ties Jan. 6 sentence record with eighteen years ~news usa crime politics Article 793 words 49 votes
US study: Law abiding immigrants: the incarceration gap between immigrants and the US born 1850-2020 ~life PDF 9 votes
A Chicago cop is accused of lying under oath forty-four times. Now prosecutors are dropping cases that relied on his testimony. ~news usa.il.chicago crime Article 1708 words 27 votes
Saudi Arabia: Brother of prominent UK based scholar sentenced to death over tweets ~news saudi arabia crime united kingdom Article 751 words 12 votes
Planned Danish law will make improper treatment of the Quran or Bible a criminal offence punishable by a fine and jail sentence of up to two years ~humanities religion Article 39 votes
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is suing the state for allegedly violating his human rights due to his being held in extreme isolation ~news norway Article 236 words 28 votes
How the richest country in the world has allowed its poor to remain poor ~humanities Article 919 words, published Aug 17 2023 34 votes
One thousand inmates at a Wisconsin prison have been confined mostly to their cells for months, with little explanation ~life Article 2340 words 41 votes
US District Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials ~books libraries Article 277 words 50 votes
US District Judge orders compassionate release of three of Newburgh Four - sharply criticizes FBI's role in radicalizing the defendants ~news usa Article 743 words 18 votes
China’s illegal police stations in fifty-three countries ~misc politics Video 28:04, published Jun 18 2023 27 votes
How and why the work of John Hart Ely a liberal scholar, profoundly influenced the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v Wade re abortion rights in the US ~health Article 5519 words 5 votes
Four Proud Boys convicted of sedition in key Jan. 6 case ~news usa crime politics Article 1501 words 14 votes
Japan to ban upskirting in sweeping sex crime reforms ~news japan crime law Article 39 words 11 votes