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Matt Stroud

Matt Stroud is a former Innocence Network investigator who now covers the U.S. legal system, in all its glory and ugliness, as a freelance journalist. Follow him on Twitter @ssttrroouudd. Email him at stroudjournalism<at>gmail.com.

• ‘An unprincipled fortress on a hill’: ACLU on why WWII internment camps are still relevant today

  Today is the 71st anniversary of the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered Japanese immigrants into prison camps during World War II. In remembrance of that day, Carl Takei, a Staff Attorney at... MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  February 19, 2014

• Study: DNA exonerations declined in 2013, while non-DNA exonerations rose sharply

  A new report from the National Registry of Exonerations puts the total number of exonerations in the U.S. at 1,300. Read the report here. Some of the report's most surprising findings... MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  February 3, 2014

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  ‘Lives lived behind bars are too often invisible’: Pete Brook’s ‘Prison Photography’ on display

  Pete Brook is a British, Portland, Ore.-based writer and curator of the excellent blog Prison Photography. In his words, that blog is built, first, on the premise that "the United States needs... MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  January 27, 2014

• After protesting solitary confinement—from solitary confinement—prisoners back in court

  One of the strangest -- and longest running -- legal cases to emerge from Pennsylvania's use of solitary confinement is the Dallas 6 case out of the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, about 30... MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  January 20, 2014

• Study funded by private prison dollars praises private prisons; no comment, says public university

  In April of last year, Temple University -- one of four "state-related" universities in Pennsylvania that receives millions in public funding every year -- revealed in a press release that researchers from its... MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  January 9, 2014

• Cost of prison phone calls is mercifully on the decline, but there a loophole—video calls

  In November, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a series of rule changes to keep the costs of prison phone calls in check. In its action summary, it explained an example of some... MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  January 7, 2014

• Decision to abandon private prison company a welcomed, ‘profound about-face’ from Idaho governor

  In the wake of big prison policy news from Idaho on Friday (the State of Idaho took back control of its largest prison from Corrections Corporation of America after a scathing investigation by... MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  January 5, 2014

• New Wall Street ‘social-impact bond’ places bets on prisoner recidivism, job training

  Interesting Wall Street experiment supposedly allowing investors to either make or lose investment cash based on the success of after-prison job programs. From Reuters: MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  January 2, 2014

• With a 47 year sentence for marijuana distribution, Weldon Angelos deserves a commutation

  With President Obama recently pardoning turkeys (this tone deaf turkey pardoning bullshit is considered funny in D.C., I guess) and a handful of prisoners serving unfair sentences, the calls for additional pardons... MORE

  The Prison Complex  ·  December 30, 2013

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  Just Kids

  Could a recent Supreme Court decision give juvenile lifers a second chance? MORE

  Features  ·  December 30, 2013

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