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Friday, Dec 29

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Silent Strength: My Time as A Prisoner’s Wife Turned Advocate

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Regular view point contributor Jodie Sinclair discusses the stigma around marrying someone incarcerated through her marriage with journalist Billy SInclair who was on death row when they met. Jodie dives into the challenges, sacrifices,…

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Reclaimed Identity: Keith Jesperson’s Sixth Murder

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“In my head there was a possibility that it could happen, but I wasn’t looking forward to—it wasn’t my intention to do so … but I knew I had the potential [to kill],” Keith Jesperson, also dubbed the Happy Face Killer, explained over the…

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Death of “Parasite” Actor Highlights South Korea’s Hardline Drug Policies

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The recent death of “Parasite” actor Lee Sun-kyun highlights South Korea’s crackdown on drugs, one which draws a hard line against anything other than total abstinence, John Yoon reports for the New York Times. The policies have come under…

Mississippi Regularly Fails to Investigate Rampant Abuses by Sheriff’s and Their Departments

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In Mississippi, allegations of jailhouse rape, brutal beatings and corrupt acts by sheriffs and their deputies regularly go ignored by the state, even despite ample evidence, Ilyssa Daly, Jerry Mitchell and Rachel Axon report in an…

Congress Put Independent Prosecutors In Charge of US Military Cases of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes

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The U.S. military has decided to put independent lawyers in charge of how it investigates and prosecutes cases of sexual assault and other major crimes, sidelining commanders after years of pressure from Congress, Lolita C. Baldor reports…

DC Officials Announce Reaccreditation of Scandalized Crime Lab

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D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab has won back a key accreditation two years after losing it following a 2021 scandal in which an independent panel of forensic experts concluded, among other concerns, that the lab made an error in testing…

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