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How It Feels to Be a Black Woman Teaching Boys of Color Behind Bars

By Sameer Rao

Criminal Justice Reform Advocates Respond to Plan to Close Rikers Island

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Kalief Browder's Mother 'Literally Died of a Broken Heart,' Says Lawyer

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Man Spends 5 Months in Jail on $2 Bail

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