Tag: american justice system

• ‘It’s totally unfair’: Chicago, where the rich live 30 years longer than the poor

  June 24, 2019

  Walking down 69th Street in Englewood, Chicago, near where she grew up, Michelle Rashad gestures to a rundown retail shop, across from a long open lot. “At this store, there’s… more ›

• Preet Bharara on the Mueller report, Constitutional crises and Twitter fatigue

  May 15, 2019

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• What It Costs to Be Smuggled Across the U.S. Border

  January 3, 2019

  MATAMOROS, Mexico — Shortly before dawn one Sunday last August, a driver in an S.U.V. picked up Christopher Cruz at a stash house in this border city near the Gulf… more ›

• The Tragedy of Mental Illness in American Prisons

  December 16, 2018

  The Tragedy of Mental Illness in American Prisons At the time of his death, following a violent altercation with guards, Karl Taylor was one of thousands of mentally ill inmates… more ›

• Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret…

  May 2, 2017

  Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms » When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one… more ›

• Machine Bias

  May 23, 2016

  Machine Bias » On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle… more ›