News & Commentary about Smart Justice
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Feb 9, 2015
This Prisoner's Note Isn't From Some Dystopian Dictatorship. It's From Texas.
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Jan 29, 2015
For-Profit Companies Are Helping to Put People In Jail for Being Poor. I Should Know, I Was One of Them.
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Jan 27, 2015
DEA Planned to Monitor Gun Show Attendees With License Plate Readers, New Emails Reveal
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Jan 26, 2015
FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record Americans' Whereabouts With License Plate Readers
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Jan 13, 2015
How US Prison Officials Rubber-Stamped a CIA Torture Chamber
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Jan 9, 2015
A Lesson From Ferguson: Driving While Black Leads to Jailed for Being Poor
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Jan 9, 2015
Corrections Corporation of America's Loss Is Ohio's Gain
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Dec 22, 2014
Serial and What It Says About America's Criminal Justice System
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Dec 19, 2014
"People in Your Hood Ride Bikes to Shoot People."