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- A Secret Survey From Inside a Women’s Prison Tells Stories of Domestic Abuse Untold in Court
by Pamela Colloff, ProPublica on July 6, 2026 at 4:14 PMOne incarcerated woman set out to understand how many others at Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center had cases like hers. Their stories helped shape a new state law intended to reduce their sentences — but will it work? by Pamela Colloff, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Last summer, I traveled to McLoud, Oklahoma, home to the state’s largest women’s prison. McLoud — a
- Louisiana Supreme Court Frees Death Row Prisoner, Calling Evidence Against Him “Scientifically Indefensible�by Richard A. Webster, ProPublica & Verite News on July 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
The decision affirms a lower court’s ruling nullifying Jimmie “Chris� Duncan’s 1998 first-degree murder conviction. Duncan was convicted based in part on forensic evidence that is now widely regarded as junk science. by Richard A. Webster, ProPublica & Verite News This story was originally published by ProPublica. It was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Former Louisiana death row inmate Jimmie “Chris� Duncan is
- Review: “Summer’s Never Over,” by Darby Bozemanby Chapter16.org on June 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
While a mysterious figure stalks a summer camp, young counselors bond and clash. by Peggy Burch & Chapter16.org Summer’s Never Over By Darby Bozeman. Berkley. 368 pages. $20. Darby Bozeman’s debut thriller, Summer’s Never Over, turns a lakeside children’s camp in a remote Georgia forest into a backdrop for jump-scares. A black-clad figure campers call the Phantom stalks the grounds at night, windows are smashed, campers go missing. Then the forest goes up in flames, and a popular counselor named Stephanie