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Legal Financial Obligations Are the New Debtors’ Prison

Legal financial obligations can saddle a prisoner with exponentially increasing debt long after they’ve been released from prison. It can even land them back in jail. Can the cycle be broken?

Arvind Dilawar

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When Could the House Vote to Impeach Trump?

“An impeachable offense,” then-Representative Gerald Ford said in 1970, “is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives…

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

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Despite Federal Law, Some Rural Hospitals Still Turn Away Women in Labor

Thirty years ago, a law was passed to ensure hospitals treated women in labor. Inspection reports show that,…

Pacific Standard Staff

Letter From Oxford, Mississippi: Where Public Defenders Go to Church

While Gideon's Promise offers training in courtroom tactics and storytelling for public defenders, its goal is much larger: to create a nationwide community.

Tony Rehagen

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In Connecticut, Calling for Help Carries Risks for Victims of Domestic Violence

The state’s rate of dual arrests — where both parties in a violent dispute wind up arrested — is nearly 10 times…

Pacific Standard Staff

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One Way to Improve Eyewitness Identification: Use the American System

Police in the United States might be doing something right, at least compared to their peers in United…

Pacific Standard Staff

A businessman walks past a U.S. flag flying at half mast as people return to work at the Fulton County Superior Courthouse on March 14th, 2005, in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Hip-Hop Professor

When prosecutors introduce song lyrics as evidence of crime, defense lawyers call the University of Richmond's Erik Nielson, a rap expert who helps juries understand the difference between art and life.

Tony Rehagen