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Co-published with The New RepublicChristopher Dunn has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder he and others say he didn’t commit. The state of Missouri says he must stay there—because he wasn’t sentenced to

Co-published with the Utah Investigative Journalism Project and The Salt Lake Tribune. Regulators haven’t heard of it, but a judge denounced it as questionable, if not ‘unconscionable.’

Co-published with Slate. I learned racial ambiguity was not something I could afford.

Co-published with VICE News. Life in pre-release is like a grim resource-management video game where you have to juggle ironclad schedules and severe punishments for small infractions, all at once.

Co-published with Canopy Atlanta and Atlanta Magazine. Officials deemed water sales along highway exits a threat. But for one West End teenager, the hustle is a way to make money and to

Co-published with Slate. Most states let courts fine teenagers. The debt is taking down their whole families.

In June, our contributing editor Rich Benjamin went on MSNBC to talk about politics, police brutality, and public perceptions over the nationwide protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.

Co-published with The Guardian. Working for the county probation department, the largest in the nation, means being equal parts social worker and law enforcement.

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