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During an arm chair discussion moderated by The Marshall Project’s Bill Keller last week, President Obama addressed serious gaps in how criminal justice data is collected nationwide: “Collecting data I think is something that’s going to be very important...

Prison Legal News Secret Justice: Criminal Informants and America's Underground Legal System Loaded on JUNE 15, 2010 by Alexandra Natapoff published in Prison Legal News June, 2010, page 1 Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct...

At Sunlight, we’ve long been champions of the general idea that access to data makes things better. And we know that’s especially true in specific policy areas such as criminal justice. What we’ve learned over the last year (as we've started building...

The federal government has subsidized the criminalization of millions of young people simply for having a small amount of pot. The following article first appeared in the Nation. Click here to subscribe to the Nation's newsletter.  “Whites...

The California Attorney General’s office is required every year to compile details on each state-level wiretap order filed by local prosecutors. Mandated by the legislature as a transparency measure in the highly secret process of electronic surveillance...