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Prisons often take an expansive view of their power to censor what inmates are reading. It makes sense that they might ban a book on, say, how to escape…

A Sangamon County judge has declined to give a group of Illinois prisoners a new parole hearing — at least for now.The case has to do with a formal…

How do you get a 17-year-old to confess to a crime he didn’t commit? Turns out it’s not that hard.Two years ago, Trevon Yates confessed to St. Clair…