Criminal Justice
May 26, 2011 -
The controversy began in December 2009, when Sue Sturgis received an automated call at her home asking questions about her views on education in Wake County, N.C., the site of bitter controversy over the school system's diversity policy.
May 24, 2011 -
The Supreme Court's ruling this week that California's prisons are so overcrowded it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment -- requiring the release of 30,000 prisoners -- is rightly being heralded as a landmark case for the rights of the incarcerated.
April 5, 2011 -
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica
March 23, 2011 -
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica
March 21, 2011 -
By Rebekah L. Cowell, special to Facing South