The function was the violence
In 1971, Attica’s prisoners took control of D Yard and issued demands: adequate food, one shower a week not ice-cold. Governor Rockefeller sent state police. Thirty-three prisoners and ten hostages died. Every hostage was killed by state gunfire....
Twenty-eight years for a painting
In 2021, Ndume Olatushani walked out of a Tennessee prison after twenty-eight years on death row for a murder he did not commit. He entered at thirty. He left at fifty-eight....
The map already tells you
In 2016 the DOJ investigated the Baltimore Police Department. Officers had made 300,000 pedestrian stops in a city of 620,000. One man was stopped thirty times in four years. Never charged with anything....