Season three of Escaping the Odds, a podcast about entrepreneurship for the formerly incarcerated, dropped Tuesday.
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‘I’ll be the first to die’
As Illinois prisons accelerated releases during the pandemic, many were forced into crowded, unmonitored residential reentry centers across Cook County.
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‘I’m the bad guy now’: A retired cop on outing police misconduct
Bill Dorsch loved being a Chicago cop, then he witnessed misconduct by disgraced detective Reynaldo Guevara.
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Rewriting the narrative
This story is part of the Marshall Project’s “We Are Witnesses: Chicago” series. In 15 direct-to-camera testimonies, this collection of videos gives voice to Chicagoans affected by the justice system. Watch the videos at themarshallproject.org/chicago.
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‘We Are Witnesses: Chicago’
In 15 direct-to-camera testimonies, this Marshall Project video series gives voice to Chicagoans affected by the justice system.
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Q&A: Cook County Board candidate Abdelnasser Rashid on taxes, surveillance, and campaign finance reform
Vying to flip one of four Republican seats, the 29-year-old would be the first Muslim in the county legislature.
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Mother of teen killed by Chicago police officer Marco Proano ‘glad the verdict was guilty’
Proano never faced criminal charges for fatally shooting 19-year-old Niko Husband, whose family is still seeking justice.
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Can a lawsuit deliver justice after a fatal police shooting?
On a summer night in 2011, Chicago police officer Marco Proano fatally shot 19-year-old Niko Husband outside a dance party. The Independent Police Review Authority said the shooting was justified. Then a civil jury took up the case.
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Why liberals should dearly miss Antonin Scalia, the Bond villain of Supreme Court justices
Progressives now have no one adversary of sufficient skill and smarts to galvanize them.
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Cook County’s most unconventional judge takes justice beyond the bench
She sings, she dances, she shouts—she rings a cowbell. But Judge Jackie Portman is convinced her unorthodox methods in and out of the courtroom get results.
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The 181 best things I ate and drank in 2015
A year of dining out and cooking yielded something uniquely delicious nearly every other day.
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Tough call: Justice and the NBA
NBA refs made the right calls, even if they weren’t exactly right.
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An ‘obsessive’ Sun-Times reporter is vindicated by the Vanecko case—but not content
An “obsessive” Sun-Times reporter is vindicated by the Vanecko case—but not content.
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A former investigator of police misconduct on the questions she never asked
A former investigator of police misconduct tackles the questions she never asked.