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This article was published in collaboration between Bolts and New York Focus. On Monday, Janet DiFiore, the chief judge of the Court of Appeals, New York State’s highest court, announced that she will ...

“Just an Opportunity to Come Home” Illinois, Minnesota, and New Mexico this year abolished sentences of life without parole for juveniles. Now comes the hard part. Daniel Nichanian | June 29, 2023 ...

These offices have wide powers over the scope of incarceration and the conditions of detention, issues that are on the ballot from Tampa and Savannah to Phoenix.

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