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Majority of Alabama Inmates Want Trump to Win Presidential Election, Poll Says

A majority of Alabama inmates would cast their vote for Donald Trump if given the chance, with support for the former president outpacing his rivals even from behind prison walls, according to a new survey by The Marshall Project.

International Business Times

Iowa Supreme Court is Considering if the State Can Charge Acquitted Defendants for Court-Appointed Attorneys

Iowa has one of the most aggressive court systems in the country when it comes to billing defendants for court-appointed attorneys, even in cases where they're acquitted or charges are dropped.

Reason

The Government Is Taking Babies Away Because Their Moms Ate Poppy Seeds

Unreliable drug tests are sparking unnecessary child welfare investigations.

Reason

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This company promised to improve health care in jails. Dozens of its patients have died.

Health care contractor Turn Key serves nearly 70 counties across Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Colorado, Kansas and Montana.

The Texas Tribune

A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death threats

He was tasked with ending abuse at a federal penitentiary in Illinois but says his own staff and Bureau of Prisons officials blocked his efforts.

WEKU

New accounts of abuse at federal prison prompt renewed calls for investigation

More than 120 prisoners held at a special unit in Thomson Penitentiary reported mistreatment, a Washington Lawyers' Committee report says.

WEKU

Gun possession arrests doubled in Chicago, but shootings remained high — and unsolved

The Marshall Project’s year-long investigation found that arrests for gun possession — the vast majority involving young Black men — have grown to their highest level in decades. But violent crimes involving guns continued to jump, with few arrests in those cases.

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America’s book bans have already come for prisons

From colouring books to abolition newspapers and Reader’s Digest magazines, thousands of titles are banned in prisons and jails across the country, often with opaque reasons and with little oversight, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

The Problems With Just Getting Guns Out of People's Hands as a Solution to Gun Violence

New study sees Chicago harassing and arresting people for paperwork violations, damaging their ability to live and work, without demonstrable effect on gun violence

Reason

Unbelievable on Netflix: For journalists and police, lessons in how to report and investigate rape

In 2016, the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting was awarded to An Unbelievable Story of a Rape by T Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project “for a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement’s enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend…

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