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Politics

What it was like to watch Trump win the election while in prison

Casey Tolan

CHARLOTTE, NC - OCTOBER 14: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally on October 14, 2016 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Trump continues to campaign for his run for president of the United States. (Photo by Brian Blanco/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

Why Donald Trump's election won't doom the criminal justice...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

Private prison company stocks are soaring with the news of a...

Casey Tolan

PHILADELPHIA, PA - NOVEMBER 07: Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally on Independence Mall on November 7, 2016 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. With one day to go until election day, Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Elections

Hillary Clinton's closing argument in America's birthplace:...

Casey Tolan

People cast their votes Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, at polling location inside the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Northeast Philadelphia, where a mural of President Barack Obama painted on a wall behind two voting booths was ordered covered up by a Philadelphia court. The mural had been left uncovered when the polling location opened, but was ordered covered after Republicans filed a complaint. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)

Elections

How Philadelphians are organizing to fight voter intimidation...

Casey Tolan

Officials stand near an idle Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority train, Monday, June 9, 2014, in the East Falls section of Philadelphia. Authorities are investigating a possible person struck by the commuter train. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Politics

Philadelphia transit strike ends just in time to avoid an...

Casey Tolan

ADELANTO, CA - NOVEMBER 15: Immigrants wait for medical attention during 'sick call' at the Adelanto Detention Facility on November 15, 2013 in Adelanto, California. The center, the largest and newest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention facility in California, houses an average of 1,100 immigrants in custody pending a decision in their immigration cases or awaiting deportation. The facility is managed by the private GEO Group. ICE detains an average of 33,000 undocumented immigrants in more than 400 facilities nationwide. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

Private prisons' new plan to cover losses involves more...

Casey Tolan

FILE - In this April 28, 2015 file photo, demonstrators stand in front of a rainbow flag of the Supreme Court in Washington as the Supreme Court was set to hear historic arguments in cases that could make same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Politics

Why the fight to end the death penalty could look a lot like...

Casey Tolan

ADELANTO, CA - NOVEMBER 15: Field office director Dave Marin walks into the Adelanto Detention Facility on November 15, 2013 in Adelanto, California. The facility, the largest and newest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention center in California, houses an average of 1,100 immigrants in custody pending a decision in their immigration cases or awaiting deportation. The average stay for a detainee is 29 days. The facility is managed by the private GEO Group. ICE detains an average of 33,000 undocumented immigrants in more than 400 facilities nationwide. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

America's second-largest private prison company accused of...

Casey Tolan

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Elections

Meet the gay, Vietnamese candidate who could be the first...

Casey Tolan

Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, Okla., is viewed Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. The privately run prison where violence erupted over the weekend and left four inmates dead remains on lockdown because of the ongoing investigation. The prison has 1,720 beds and is owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America. (AP Photo/Kelly Kissel)

Criminal Justice

The largest private prison company in America is changing its...

Casey Tolan

FILE - In this April 20, 2015, file photo, Chicago Police Detective Dante Servin listens as Judge Dennis Porter reads his decision at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on involuntary manslaughter charges in the March 2012 shooting death of Rekia Boyd. Servin, whom the department was trying to fire after he fatally shot Boyd, has decided to resign from the force rather than fight to retain his job. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)

Police

A Chicago cop is asking for disability pay to deal with PTSD...

Casey Tolan

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Crime

Three Philadelphia prison guards were just arrested for...

Casey Tolan

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 14: Gary Tyler speaks on stage during the Yes on Prop 62 coalition announcement at Los Angeles Grand Park on July 14, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Yes on Prop 62)

Politics

How people wrongly sentenced to death are leading the fight...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

She watched her husband get sentenced to death. Now she’s...

Casey Tolan

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 19: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (L) speaks as Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on during the third U.S. presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on October 19, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tonight is the final debate ahead of Election Day on November 8. (Photo by Mark Ralston-Pool/Getty Images)

Politics

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton just can't agree who's...

Casey Tolan

NORWICH, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 25: (EDITORS NOTE: IMAGES EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION UNTIL 0001GMT AUGUST 26, 2005) 19 year old inmate James looks out of the window of the Young Offenders Institution attached to Norwich Prison on August 25, 2005 in Norwich, England. A Chief Inspector of Prisons report on Norwich Prison says healthcare accommodation was among the worst seen, as prisoners suffered from unscreened toilets, little natural light, poor suicide prevention, inadequate education and training for long-term prisoners. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

A disturbing lawsuit claims private prison guards forced an...

Casey Tolan

** FILE ** In this Feb. 25, 2009, file photo worshippers attend evening prayers during an open house at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in Minneapolis, Minn. The mosque, Minnesota's largest, was suspected by the families of some missing Somali men of having a role in their loved ones' disappearance _ something mosque officials have repeatedly denied. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)

Terrorism

Three members of a right-wing Kansas militia were just...

Casey Tolan

A person is shown standing near the U.S.-Canadian border in Derby Line, Vt., on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Border officials say gates in Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec, are necessary to stem the tide of smugglers and illegal aliens who take advantage of unguarded streets, which run perpendicular to the border and through both communities. (AP Photo/Alison Redlich)

Immigration

At the Canadian border, there's no wall—but plenty of...

Casey Tolan

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Bill de Blasio condemns Rudy Giuliani as 'a lost soul' for...

Casey Tolan and AMERICA with Jorge Ramos

MANCHESTER, NH - JANUARY 08: A man marks his ballot in a voting booth January 8, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Record turnout for the nation's first primary was expected. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Elections

One more reason Columbus Day sucks: It's making it harder for...

Casey Tolan

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Economy

What's the cost of affordable housing? In Vancouver, it’s...

Casey Tolan

371489 10: The Texas death chamber in Huntsville, TX, June 23, 2000 where Texas death row inmate Gary Graham was put to death by lethal injection on June 22, 2000. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers)

Criminal Justice

Texas just executed someone for the first time in almost six...

Casey Tolan

WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 1: Police officers stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court December 1, 2003 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Supreme Court refused without comment to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' interpretation on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution today. 9th Circuit judge, Alex Kozinski, along with several other judges wanted to reverse the decision. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was intent on protecting gun rights of militias, not individuals. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

Supreme Court slams ‘indefensible’ case where jury was...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

A jury was told this death row inmate was dangerous because...

Casey Tolan

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Immigration

The State Department is planning a pilot program to let...

Casey Tolan

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch testifies during a hearing before the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee February 24, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The subcommittee held a hearing to examine the Department of Justice budget. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

Prosecutors are ignoring new research debunking popular...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

A New York jail is locking up kids with mental illnesses in...

Casey Tolan

CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 19: Donald Trump Jr. delivers a speech on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Immigration

The viral Skittles bowl photo the Trump campaign used to...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

How one inmate discovered his private prison was ripping him...

Casey Tolan

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Terrorism

The FBI sent a massive, unprecedented, troubling emergency...

Rafi Schwartz and Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

Inside the most humane prison in the world, where inmates...

Casey Tolan

Construction continues on The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Tuesday, June 9, 2015. The building is scheduled to open in 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Race

The new national African American history museum: A peek at...

Casey Tolan

Kris Steele, left, Chair of Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform, arrives with Ryan Kiesel, second from left, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, and other supporters to deliver petitions to the Oklahoma Secretary of State to qualify State Questions 780 and 781 for the November ballot, in Oklahoma City, Thursday, June 2, 2016. State Questions 780 and 781 would reduce the prison population. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Criminal Justice

Why Oklahoma activists are bringing criminal justice reforms...

Casey Tolan

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The ACLU is launching a campaign to convince President Obama...

Casey Tolan

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Police

A beloved Ferguson protester was reportedly found shot dead...

Patrick Hogan and Casey Tolan

Ohio and Dearborn County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard speaks during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 in Rising Sun, Ind. Prosecutors in Indiana filed preliminary charges of murder and a supporting affidavit Thursday against Andrew Conley. Negangard said Andrew Conley is being charged as an adult and will appear Friday in court. Andrew Conley is charged with strangling his brother, 10-year-old Conner Conley, as the two wrestled on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Enquirer, Jeff Swinger) NO SALES

Criminal Justice

How overzealous rural prosecutors may be derailing real...

Casey Tolan

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a Hispanic advisory roundtable meeting in New York, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Politics

Donald Trump's 'Hispanic Advisory Council' is falling apart...

Casey Tolan

371489 10: The Texas death chamber in Huntsville, TX, June 23, 2000 where Texas death row inmate Gary Graham was put to death by lethal injection on June 22, 2000. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers)

Criminal Justice

Texas hasn't executed anyone in 148 days. That's a new record.

Casey Tolan

JACKSONVILLE, FL - APRIL 11: State Attorney Angela Corey holds a news conference to announce second degree murder charges to be brought against defendant George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting April 11, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin within a gated community in Sanford, Florida February 26, but was not charged with any crime at the time due to Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' self-defense law. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

One of the deadliest prosecutors in the country just got...

Casey Tolan

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 14: (AFP-OUT) US President Barack Obama speaks on the Orlando shooting at the Treasury Department after convening with his National Security Council on June 14, 2016 in Washington, DC. Obama directly attacked Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. (Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

Here are the 111 inmates whose sentences were just commuted...

Casey Tolan

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 2014, AND THEREAFTER- In this March 1, 2014 photo, St. Paul, Minn. Community Officer Kadra Mohamed, left, smiles as she receives her badge from St. Paul, Minn. Police Chief Thomas Smith, right, during a ceremony for her and the East African Junior Police Academy at the Western District Police Station in St. Paul, Minn. The police department introduced the hijab headscarf during the ceremony and Mohamed is the first officer in Minnesota to wear one. (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Sherri LaRose-Chiglo) MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE OUT

Police

These are the American cities where police officers can wear...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

The ‘worst place in the federal prison system’ is getting...

Casey Tolan

A view from inside the Michigan prison Carter is housed in, North Lake Correctional Facility, in 2005.

Criminal Justice

The largest chapter of the Texas prison guard union supports...

Casey Tolan

ATLANTA, GA - JANUARY 29: An abandoned Atlanta Public School bus sits in the ice on Howell Mill Road during the winter storm January 29, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Drivers and kids on school buses were stuck in their vehicles overnight as the wintery weather and accidents snarled roads and highways thoughout the region. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/Getty Images)

Education

The federal government just sued Georgia for segregating...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

Does the CEO of America’s second-largest private prison...

Casey Tolan

DANNEMORA, NY - JUNE 15: Clinton Correctional Facility is seen where two convicted murderers escaped from the prison on June 15, 2015 in Dannemora, New York. The convicts, Richard Matt and David Sweat, escaped June 6 from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York and law enforcement are on a multi-state manhunt for their capture. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

What the DOJ's new private prison policy could mean for the...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

Justice Department officials to end the use of private prisons

Casey Tolan and Daniel Rivero

FILE - In this Aug. 1922 file photo, Marcus Garvey is shown in a military uniform as the "Provisional President of Africa" during a parade on the opening day of the annual Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World at Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City. A century ago, Garvey helped spark movements from African nationalist independence to American civil rights to self-sufficiency in black commerce. Jamaican students in every grade from kindergarten through high school have began studying the teachings of the 1920-era black nationalist leader in a new mandatory civics program in schools across this predominantly black country of 2.8 million people. (AP Photo/File)

Race

Why these activists want President Obama to give civil rights...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

How a woman who’s served 23 years in prison raised her...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

Read the emotional letter from a former inmate to President...

Casey Tolan

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Politics

Is this shadowy network of PACs ripping off pro-life voters...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

Days before he was set to be executed, Robert Pruett will get...

Casey Tolan

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 10: New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton (C) holds up a bag of oregano to demonstrate what 25 grams of marijuana looks like at a news conference with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (L) to announce changes to New York City's marijuana policy on November 10, 2014 in New York City. The commissioner and Mayor de Blasio announced that the city will start giving out tickets (and court summons) rather than arresting people for possession of 25 grams of marijuana and under. The new guidelines for officers will result in hundreds of less arrests per year, freeing up the police to focus on other crimes. It will also free those caught with the drug from having a damaging arrest record. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

Marijuana arrests are on the rise in NYC—and 90% are people...

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

What it's like when your mom gets clemency from the president...

Casey Tolan

Paul Nehlen, a Republican primary challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan, accuses Ryan of betraying the party in an "act of sabotage" against presidential nominee Donald Trump Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, in Janesville, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Politics

Paul Nehlen, Paul Ryan's primary challenger, might be even...

Casey Tolan

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 12: U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement regarding the Orlando mass shooting on June 12, 2016 in Washington, DC. At least 50 people were killed and 53 were injured after suspected gunman Omar Mateen opened fire in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice

President Obama just commuted the sentences of 214 inmates

Casey Tolan

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Criminal Justice

The Charleston shooter’s lawyers just filed a motion...

Casey Tolan

Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik gestures as he arrives at the courtroom, Monday, April 16, 2012 in Oslo, Norway. The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts amid worries that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views. After opening statements, Breivik is set to testify for five days, explaining why he set off a bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight, and then shot to death 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya island, outside the Norwegian capital.(AP Photo/Hakon Mosvold Larsen, Pool)

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What Norway can teach the U.S. about the deadly price of...

Casey Tolan

LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA - JULY 21: A young male elephant acts defensively at the Pafuri game reserve on July 21, 2010 in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in South Africa spanning 19,000 square kilometres and is part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Drugs

People are overdosing on elephant sedative, a drug 100 times...

Casey Tolan