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November 11, 2021
Wanda Bertram
State Prisons Released More People Before Covid-19 Than During It
Prison officials touted a compassionate response to Covid, but the statistics tell another story.
September 21, 2021
Tana Ganeva
Biden’s Conservative Vision on Clemency
Thousands of incarcerated people went home early thanks to a Covid relief program. Why would the Biden administration send them back to prison?
February 19, 2020
Matt Ford
The Real Message of Trump’s Latest Clemency Binge
The president showered mercy on a rogues’ gallery led by disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
December 20, 2013
Julia Ioffe
The Khodorkovsky Case: Putin Giveth and Putin Taketh Away
Why Putin freed Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and why now
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