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News September 30, 2019
New FBI Data: Violent Crime Still Falling
2018 drop extends decades-long trend, but rapes rise for sixth straight year
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Case in Point July 19, 2019
Two Friends Were Found Guilty of the Same Murder. Only One Is Free.
His co-defendant was acquitted based on new evidence, but prosecutors are still fighting to keep Andrew Krivak in prison.
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Life Inside November 1, 2018
I Got A Life Sentence At 17. Then I Was Raped In Prison.
Even though my son was conceived in the most traumatic possible way, his birth was my saving grace.
By Laura Berry
Life Inside September 20, 2018
When Prisoners Say #MeToo
“Amazing, isn’t it, that a movement can ripple so widely?”
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The PREA hotline number for offenders to call is pasted on the floor under a bank of phones at the Washington Corrections Center For Women in Gig Harbor, Wash.
News July 25, 2018
Prison Rape Allegations Are on the Rise
But the accusations are still rarely found to be true.
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Life Inside August 31, 2017
I Set a Defendant Free And Got Blamed When He Raped Someone
A judge explains how he decides whether to release a defendant before trial without bail — and how it can go bad.
By Ronald Kessler
In a lawsuit by a woman who was sexually assaulted by a jail officer, federal courts dismissed claims that the administrators of the Hale County Jail in Texas should be held liable for the incident.
Case in Point July 17, 2017
Who Pays for Jail Rape?
Under “qualified immunity,” often no one.
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Feature May 22, 2017
The Accusation
Katie's father went to prison for raping her and her brothers. It was an unthinkable crime that broke her family apart. So why couldn't she remember it?
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Chris Ochoa studies in the law library at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisc., in 2004. Ochoa was wrongly imprisoned for murder and rape.
Life Inside March 9, 2017
Facing Her Daughter’s Killer, at Last
But only after two wrongly convicted men were set free.
By Jeanette Popp, as told to
Case in Point September 26, 2016
The DNA Tests That Came Too Late to Save Two Men
Percell Warren and Nathaniel Epps died while fighting a rape conviction — but their battle still goes on.
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