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Lost Girls
The Baltimore teen and her mother had been fighting for months. Sometimes the arguments got physical, and one night when the high school freshman came home late from prom dress shopping, she said she...
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A Prisoner’s Death, 3,000 Miles From Home
Frank Pauline Jr. died a sudden, violent death more than 3,000 miles from home. It was April 2015, and the Hawaii resident was walking laps around the recreation yard of the Southern New Mexico...
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How One School District Fights Decades of ‘Punishment Culture’
A sixth-grade student with curly brown hair walked into the behavior intervention center at Lincoln Middle School and let out a big sigh. She scanned the spare white walls and mustard-colored rug and...
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Waiting for Justice: Still No Reprieve for Terrence Graham
Terrence Graham receives hand-written notes from men just like him, all across the country. They thank him for their freedom, and tell him he’s changing lives. One letter writer mentions a family...
View ArticleToo Quick to Shoot?
A suburb of Sacramento, California’s capital, is the newest addition to the national debate over officer-involved shootings. An investigation published this month by The Sacramento Bee found that...
View ArticleHow to Keep Kids Out of the Criminal Justice System
When a middle school student in La Crosse, Wisconsin, swore at his teacher, he risked a criminal charge that would establish his juvenile record. But instead of a referral to the juvenile justice...
View ArticleOne Student Takes On Injustices in Minnesota’s Bail System
Simon Cecil sat on a metal stoop at the the exit to Hennepin County jail in Minneapolis, studying a mug shot of a man he’s never met but just paid $50 to bail out. Mug shots rarely capture a flattering...
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Did the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Defraud the Feds?
On August 28, 2013, Dave Rathbun sent an email to Chief Edmund Sexton of the Homeland Security Division of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD). “Chief Sexton,” wrote Rathbun, who had been a...
View Article7 Things the Trump Administration Gets Wrong about MS13
One of Latin America’s most violent gangs has become a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s campaign to go after the criminal activities it says are committed by undocumented migrants—but the...
View ArticleFlawed Forensics: Wrong by a Hair
The 28-year-old mother of two was raped by a stranger in her home in the rural Wisconsin community of Stoughton. Before the attack, the woman was followed around town and received menacing, sexually...
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Why the ‘Wall’ Won’t Stop Mexican Drug Smugglers
A new US government report on lesser-used drug trafficking techniques such as tunnels and ultralight aircraft further undermines claims that building a border wall will halt the flow of illegal drugs...
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Saving Troubled Minds
Alfred Crain Ramirez II . Photo by Ana Ramirez/Victoria Advocate The fate of a 27-year-old man came down to 12 jurors sitting elbow to elbow. Although they had no expertise, the jurors had been given...
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Gault at 50: the Unfinished Business of Juvenile Justice
A landmark decision that merged jurisprudence, common sense and fortunate timing to reshape juvenile justice and give children many of the same due process rights long held by adults charged with...
View ArticleStop Fixating on Drugs, Colombian President Tells U.S.
Washington needs to widen its anti-drug efforts to focus on international crime, says Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos. Speaking to the Atlantic Council, a Washington, DC think tank, Santos said...
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How Online Predators Outgun Police
There were rules to be a member of Dreamboard, an online bulletin board whose sole purpose was advertising and distributing child pornography. One rule: No children older than 13. In 2009, dozens of...
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Citigroup Subsidiary Admits Failure to Stop Money Laundering to Mexico
A subsidiary of one of the largest banking corporations in the U.S. has admitted to engaging in criminal behavior by failing to properly investigate tens of millions of dollars in suspicious money...
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How L.A. County Faced Its Tragic Problem with Sex-Trafficked Kids
Michelle Guymon thought sex trafficking was something that happened to young girls in other countries until a meeting called by a local judge changed her life. Guymon was director of Camp Scudder, one...
View ArticleIs the ATF’s System to Warn Gun Dealers of Break-Ins Working?
An investigation by The Trace reveals most dealers located near a recent burglary did not recall being contacted under ATF’s recently established automated “fflAlert” system. The ATF says it is...
View ArticlePuerto Rico Cocaine Seizure Points to Caribbean’s Revival as Drug Hub
The seizure earlier last month of more than a metric ton of cocaine in Puerto Rico is the latest indication of what may be the Caribbean’s revival as a major drug trans-shipment hub in the Western...
View ArticleDear Dad: ‘Why Weren’t You There?’
To mark Father’s Day on Sunday, The Beat Within, a San Francisco-based prison writing workshop asked inmates of juvenile detention centers to “write the letter you always wanted (or maybe never wanted)...
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