When Rebecca Figueroa was arrested two months into her pregnancy, she didn’t worry because she wasn’t guilty. But seven months later, she was still in jail and totally unprepared for a high-risk pregnancy, childbirth in restraints and the constant fear of losing her...
By Matt Kroschel Mar 29, 2022 Updated Mar 29, 2022 Limestone Correctional Facility Explosive allegations have been coming out of Alabama’s largest prison, and the WAAY 31 I-Team is breaking new information, despite the Alabama Department of Corrections refusing...
By Amy Bach | March 29, 2022 LIKETWEET EMAILPRINTMORE Photo by luckey_sun via Flickr New York State’s criminal justice data infrastructure fails to meet basic levels of transparency that are critical for evidence-based decision making and general accountability. What...
By Editorial Board March 26, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT Listen to article 2 min An inmate uses a phone at the Cook County Jail in Chicago on June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) Picking up the phone and placing a call in the United States today requires little...
Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing legislative leaders to adopt changes to the state’s bail laws as part of the state budget, due April 1. Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed allowing judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness to the community in deciding whether to set...
By Jaeah Lee Ms. Lee is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a 2021-22 Knight-Wallace reporting fellow. March 30, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Tommy Munsdwell Canady was in middle school when he wrote his first rap lyrics. He started out freestyling for...
