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Two significant reforms to the Pennsylvania criminal legal system were ignored by our legislature during the latest budget debate, even though they provided an opportunity to make our commonwealth fairer and more just while saving taxpayers tens of millions of dollars every year.

In December of 2020, a McKeesport police officer was shot while in pursuit of a suspect. The suspect was an individual who was well-known to McKeesport police. As they called in reinforcements from other police departments across the county, McKeesport police began an aggressive manhunt that intentionally and unconstitutionally targeted and terrorized Black residents.

Courts in PA are misusing and abusing cash bail

Sex work and sex workers have been around as long as people have been engaged in commerce.

There are some throughlines that are as true today as they were 50, 100, and 150 years ago.

Some elected officials aren’t celebrating today. But we don’t have to take their attempts at censorship and erasure sitting down.

The achievement of the Voting Rights Act has been gutted by court decisions and backlash politics.

A new report shows that judges assigning cash bail in violation of the rules is not an issue confined to Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. It’s a statewide crisis.

How does the school board expect Central students to grow when they are educated on a partial, obscured, whitewashed understanding of the history of America?