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Under Dr. Fowler’s leadership, the Maryland Office of the Medical Examiner has been complicit in creating false narratives about what kills Black people in police encounters.

The contest between Vance and Trump is about much more than a financial investigation. It’s a stress test of the American justice system.

District attorney associations have been a powerful force in the criminal legal system for decades. They have used their power and influence to increase the power of prosecutors, maintain and grow the carceral state, and shut down reform efforts.

"We're going to look back 50 years from now, and that electric chair and that lethal injection table, they're going be sitting in a museum," predicted Sen. Scott A. Surovell.

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We can’t get rid of policing as we know it if we continue to value one person’s time and labor over another’s, which is a requirement of racialized capitalism.

Two weeks from now, the Trump Administration plans to execute a forty-year-old man named Brandon Bernard. His death, by lethal injection, would be the ninth carried out by the U.S. government since July—the ninth, in fact, since 2003.

Unlike many people incarcerated in state and federal prisons legally ineligible to vote, moat in local jails -- detained pretrial or held on misdemeanor charges -- are legally eligible to vote, but are unable to do so,

The legal justice system does everything it possibly can to strip people behind bars of their humanity, separate them from their families, and not provide the adequate care that human beings deserve.