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The man in charge of Pa.’s commutation system says it’s broken. Can it be fixed?
December 11, 2018, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer For the last four years, Kathleen Brown, a University of Pennsylvania...
Suit: Drop 'good moral character' cosmetologist requirement
December 12, 2018, Kristen De Groot - The Philadelphia Inquirer Is good moral character required to wax eyebrows and give facials? In the...
Opinion: PA’s new sentencing algorithm is a weapon of mass incarceration
December 11, 2018, Reuben Jones - Billy Penn What did Walt Whitman mean when he wrote “I am large, I contain multitudes”? The famous...
Innocent — and stuck in prison for life? Philly juvenile lifers face a Catch 22
December 9, 2018, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer First, there was the chaotic din of shouting and street noise. Then, David...
Meek Mill: Prisoners Need a New Set of Rights
November 26, 2018, Meek Mill - the New York Times I’m blessed — I’m busy recording an album and catching up with friends and fans as my...
5,000 inmates with hepatitis C sued Pa. prisons. Now, they’re on their way to getting treatment
November 19. 2018 , Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer In 2013, a cure for hepatitis C — a chronic viral infection that, if...
John Pace and His Friends Expected to Die in Prison
November 16, 2018, Katie Rose Quandt - The Nation On a Saturday morning in early June, 15 men in their 40s, 50s, and 60s gathered in a...
Exonerated death-row inmates push Pa. to abolish capital punishment
November 16, 2018, Aaron Moselle - WHYY Witness to Innocence, a national anti-death penalty organization based in Philadelphia, staged an...
City councilman pushes governor to release Eric Riddick
November 8, 2018, John N. Mitchell - Philly Tribune City Councilman David Oh on Wednesday filed a petition with Gov. Tom Wolf seeking to...