George Lavender is an award-winning radio and print journalist based in Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter @GeorgeLavender.
17% Of The Prison Population Has Hepatitis C, Here’s How That Could Change
George Lavender
What Are People Saying About the Stanford Case?
George Lavender
Governor Restores Voting Rights To More Than 200,000 Formerly Convicted Virginians
George Lavender
Alabama Governor Blames Prisoner Uprisings On “Overcrowding And Understaffing”
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Where Might Remaining Guantanamo Detainees Be Sent If The Camp Closes?
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How Do Companies Make Money From Incarceration?
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After Decades In Solitary Confinement Judge Orders Last Member of Angola 3 Released
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Feeling the Bern or Ready for Hillary? Where The Democrats Stand on Criminal Justice
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After 16 Years in Prison DNA Evidence Leads to Exoneration
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Thousands of Prisoners Released After Drug Sentences Reduced, But One in Three May Face Deportation
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Clinton Campaign Will Stop Taking Cash from Private Prison Companies’ PACs and Lobbyists
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Prison Phone Call Rates Capped
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Georgia Denies Kelly Gissendaner Clemency Despite Pope’s Pleas
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Texas Provides Virginia with Lethal Injection Drugs Amid National Shortage
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Appeals Court Overturns Murder Sentences for Three of the Elkhart Four
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Appeals Court Grants Last-Minute Stay of Execution for Richard Glossip
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Oklahoma Execution Looms but Lawyers say Richard Glossip “Sentenced to Death Because He’s Poor
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Inmate Firefighters Are on the Frontlines of Fighting the West Coast’s Wildfires
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California First State To Pay For Prisoner’s Sex Affirmation Surgery
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Transgender Woman Who Took California to Court Over Cost of Surgery to be Paroled
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Should Prisoners Pay Medical Bills?
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“The Punishment Simply Does Not Fit The Crime”: President Obama on Criminal Justice Reform (VIDEO)
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California Hunger Strikes Two Years On: What Has Changed?
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Nebraska Abolishes Death Penalty
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Witness Testimony From Attica Prison Uprising Released for First Time
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Pennsylvania’s “Revictimization Relief Act” Struck Down by Federal Judge
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Columbia Students Sit-In For Prison Divestment
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After Prisonville: What Next For Willacy?
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San Diego Rapper Facing 25 Years To Life For Mixtape Could Have Case Dismissed
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Captive Nation: Dan Berger on Black Prison Organizing and Mass Incarceration
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What’s Up with the Koch Brothers and Criminal Justice Reform?
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Protest Over Medical Services Sparks Prisoner Uprising At Controversial Private Prison in Texas
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California Follows Vermont in Providing Condoms to State Prisoners
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Should Architects Design Buildings Used For Executions And Isolation?
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From Chicago’s North Side to Guantánamo: Former Detective Accused of Torture
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Pennsylvania Puts Death Penalty on Hold
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Consequences of a “Hate Crime”: From a Fire on a Bus to Seven Years Prison
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New Challenge To Pennsylvania Law Restricting Mumia Abu-Jamal And Other Prisoners’ Speech
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A Year in Criminal Justice
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‘Tis The Season For Clemency
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Christmas Behind Bars
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DC Mayor Withdraws Proposed Jail Health Care Contract Amidst Controversy
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Wisconsin Woman Jailed Under ‘Cocaine-Mom’ Law
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‘Chipping Away At The System’: Maya Schenwar on Alternatives to Our ‘Justice’ System
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Listen: California Attorney General “Shocked” By Her Own Department’s Arguments Against Parole
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Clinton-Era Law Costing Death Row Prisoners Chance At Appeal
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Prop 47 Passes: California Wobbles Towards Sentencing Reform
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Prison Baseball: San Quentin’s World Series
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