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A youth sentencing study shows Alabama and Mississippi are among just four states that top the nation in new juvenile life without parole sentences since 2012.
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A bill moving through the Legislature would give survivors three more years to file lawsuits for child sex abuse claims that happened outside the state’s statute of limitations.
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The state of Louisiana has been given one week to shut down a temporary youth detention center at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola following an order from a federal judge Friday.
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Lawyers for the state defended Alabama’s new congressional map before a panel of judges who previously ruled the 2021 map violated the Voting Rights Act.
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A member of a grassroots organization rallying against the Orleans jail’s Phase III project was subjected to a profanity-filled exchange with a council member.
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Across the country, U.S. justice officials are hosting simulated experiences to highlight the barriers many people face after leaving prison.
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The decision reverses decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.
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Prisons, jails, and youth detention centers across Louisiana are seeing an increase in ‘unnatural’ deaths caused by drug overdoses, suicide, and violence.
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Alabama’s chemical endangerment laws are strict, especially for pregnant women. One program offers alternatives to jail for treating prenatal substance use.
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The Violence Policy Center, a non-profit educational organization, used the most recent CDC data on gun death rates in the U.S. for its analysis.
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Daniel L. Hatcher discusses his book, which looks at how state agencies exploit impoverished families to make money through the U.S. juvenile justice system.
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A conversation with journalist and podcast host Josie Duffy Rice details the troubled history of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, or Mt. Meigs.