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The Mississippi Supreme Court building in January 2024. The state Supreme Court recently instructed local circuit judges to publicly disclose in writing how they provide poor defendants with their Sixth Amendment right to an attorney.

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As temperatures neared 100 in June, a power outage cut off cool air to the poorly ventilated county jail in downtown Cleveland. With most windows sealed shut, it got dangerously hot, people inside say.

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The Mississippi Supreme Court building in January 2024. The state Supreme Court recently instructed local circuit judges to publicly disclose in writing how they provide poor defendants with their Sixth Amendment right to an attorney.

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CoreCivic has renamed its facility in Leavenworth, Kansas, “The Midwest Regional Reception Center.”

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The South Carolina State Capitol.

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Louisiana Rep. Delisha Boyd speaks in New Orleans in 2024. The Democrat co-authored the bill that allows surgical castration to be used as a punishment for sex crimes.

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Josh J. Smith spoke at an event in Tennessee in 2022.

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Misty McCann, a peer support specialist at Project Lazarus in Wilkes County, North Carolina, helps a client find temporary housing. Project Lazarus lost a $900,000 federal grant to open a recovery court, which would have hired peer support specialists to work with court participants.

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Immigration officers escort migrants being deported from the U.S. in Nogales, Arizona, in January 2025.

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Mississippi lawmakers met in May for a special session to finalize the state’s budget and agreed to spend $668,000 on a test program to improve public defense in one of the state’s most rural court districts.

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Sheriff’s Deputy Isen Vajusi, on the left in the back row, shot a teenager in the leg in October 2024 and fired four rounds at another teenager on May 16. He was not injured. The Mentor Police Department deemed Vajusi unfit to be an officer in 2021.

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Members of the California National Guard stand in front of protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 8, 2025.

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Poppy seeds, used in salads and other foods, can yield positive results for opiates in urine tests.

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A video surveillance camera is mounted to the side of a building in San Francisco, California, in 2019.

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T-Man, a teen in Chicago who lost his cousin to an overdose, had joined Choose to Change, a program that pairs cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring to help kids cope with the violence they witness.

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Senior Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, pictured in 2008, ruled that federal officials cannot withhold gender-affirming care from people incarcerated in federal prisons while a lawsuit proceeds.

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Michael McCallion, who asked that his face not be shown, said that a group of corrections officers beat him, breaking four of his ribs, in October 2020 at a prison in Gouverneur, New York.

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Ed Martin speaks during a press conference on May 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C. President Trump appointed Martin to run the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney.

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Tom Robbins, second from right, spoke with Marshall Project founder Neil Barsky, at right, at a 2016 celebration in our newsroom. They gathered after the announcement that Robbins’ series of stories on abuses in the Attica Correctional Facility and other New York prisons was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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