Reveal created a first-of-its-kind database to track bills that target election crimes in state legislatures across the country.
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Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Criminal Justice
Suit: Oklahoma sheriffs, judges let company extort people over court debts
A federal suit claims an Oklahoma company extorts thousands of people too poor to pay their court debts, without hearings required by law.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Prisons
Reveal, The Atlantic to present Oklahoma forum on female incarceration
Reveal and The Atlantic will team up for a forum on Oklahoma’s female incarceration rate, the highest in the U.S.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Inequality
Private diversion programs are failing those who need help the most
Diversion programs administered by CorrectiveSolutions, a for-profit company dogged for years by consumer rights litigation, often have left out those they were designed to help.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some
#JusticeForSome: Share your favorite reporting on courts and inequality
We’re collecting the best reporting on growing inequality in America’s state courts.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Inequality
Bail amendment passes convincingly
New Mexicans overwhelmingly voted to limit the role of money in judges’ decisions about which defendants stay locked up and which go free before trial.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Criminal Justice, Inequality, Voting
New Mexico vote: Should people be stuck in jail because they’re poor?
On Nov. 8, New Mexicans will vote on a constitutional amendment to overhaul the use of money bail in the state.
Posted inAccountability, And Justice for Some, Criminal Justice, Money and Politics
And justice for some
We begin an occasional series we’re calling And Justice for Some – an investigation into how the courts treat people differently.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Inequality
Judge’s controversial crusade renews diversity debate
The Kentucky Supreme Court will consider whether juries must be diverse after a judge dismisses an all-white jury.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Criminal Justice
White judges dominate state courts, and researchers say that’s a problem
Before Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was in the national spotlight for the recent killings of Alton Sterling and three police officers, it was the city’s court system that was at the center of a prolonged battle over race.