Native Survivors Of Foster Care Return Home
Part 3 of athree-part investigationDwayne Stenstrom is a professor of American history. His office is lined with towers of obscure books and poetry on the walls.
View ArticleNicaragua, Guatemala: '80s Rebels Seek Leadership
Twenty-five years ago, both Central American countries were in the midst of violent civil wars. Both countries are holding presidential elections and the main candidates are icons from the 1980s.
View ArticleDeath Sentences Drop To Historic Lows
Death sentences dropped dramatically this year, marking the first time in more than three decades that judges and juries sent fewer than 100 people to death row, according to a new report from the...
View ArticleICE Opens Immigrant Detention Center In Rural Texas
Just off the side of the road in rural southern Texas is a large beige building that looks a lot like a prison. Fences and tall walls mark the outside. Inside, the doors slam and people sit in control...
View ArticleUnlikely Advocates For Teen Killers: Victims' Families
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the fate of 2,500 offenders who were sentenced as teenagers to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Seventy-nine of them were 13 or 14...
View ArticleReturn To Alcatraz: Will A Legend End After 50 Years?
Fifty years ago, three men set out into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a raft made out of raincoats. It was one of the most daring prison escapes in U.S.
View Article50 Years Later, Mystery Of Alcatraz Escape Endures
The legend of the escape from Alcatraz has always held that Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin would return for the 50th anniversary of their famed 1962 prison breakout. Tuesday was that...
View Article50 Years Later, Mystery Of Alcatraz Escape Endures
Fifty years ago three men set out into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay in a raft made out of raincoats. It was one of the most daring prison escapes in U.S.
View ArticleTribal Coalition Report Finds South Dakota 'Willfully' Violated Child Welfare...
South Dakota's foster care system "systematically violated the spirit and the letter" of a law meant to protect Native American children, a coalition of tribal directors from the state's nine Sioux...
View ArticleWithout Reviews, Inmates Can Get Lost In U.S. Prison System
Every year 10 million people funnel in and out of our nation's jails and prisons. And every year some of them get lost. Recently there have been two high-profile cases of such inmates — one who got out...
View ArticleOlder Suspect Described As Controlling, Manipulative
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Big cheers in Watertown, Massachusetts, tonight and this tweet from the Boston Police Department, captured with three exclamation points, the hunt is over, the search is...
View ArticleA Night At The Rock: Former Alcatraz Inmate Journeys Back
For 29 years, Alcatraz — the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco — housed some of the nation's worst criminals: Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Birdman Robert Stroud.Today, 50 years after it...
View ArticlePolice, Banks Help Undocumented Workers Shake 'Walking ATM' Label
On a recent Friday evening in Langley Park, Md., police officer Juan Damian drives his patrol car past fast food restaurants, discount stores and Hispanic groceries.Damian estimates that at least...
View ArticleMentally Ill Are Often Locked Up In Jails That Can't Help
Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Tom Dart walks the halls of his jail every day. With 10,000 inmates, this place is a small city — except a third of the people here are mentally ill.Dart has created some of...
View ArticleGentrification May Actually Be Boon To Longtime Residents
Bobby Foster Jr. can often be found reading the paper on a wooden bench outside Murry's grocery store on the corner of Sixth and H streets northeast in Washington, D.C."The sun shines over here this...
View ArticleExonerations On The Rise, And Not Just Because Of DNA
2013 was a record-breaking year for exonerations in the United States, according to statistics compiled by the National Registry of Exonerations.At least 87 people were set free for crimes they did not...
View ArticleSpike In Heroin Use Can Be Traced To Prescription Pads
The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has brought attention to a grim reality of drug abuse in America — most notably with the increasing use of heroin.Hoffman was found dead in his apartment on...
View ArticleTo Rent Or Buy? For The Federal Government, It's Complicated
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been in the hot seat in recent weeks for mishandling the leases for some of its office space.
View ArticleMissouri Execution Stalled Over Lethal Drugs In Short Supply
A few years ago, Missouri, like other states, was having trouble finding lethal execution drugs. Europe was balking, and U.S. drug manufacturers didn't want a part of it.So Missouri turned to a place...
View Article50 Years Later, Mystery Of Alcatraz Escape Endures
The legend of the escape from Alcatraz has always held that Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin would return for the 50th anniversary of their famed 1962 prison breakout. Tuesday was that...
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