The Intercept is building a criminal justice beat

[Luminous Animal]

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/19/welcome-jordan-smith/

In the next few months, Jordan, along with the excellent Natasha Vargas-Cooper, whose hiring we announced last week, and I will begin building The Intercept’s criminal justice coverage, to show the myriad ways in which our system of crime and punishment is fatally flawed. But we will cover other issues, too—and other journalists at The Intercept will also write stories on the U.S. justice system.

Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the horrible excesses of our criminal justice system—from solitary confinement to draconian mandatory minimum sentencing. We plan to build upon this growing consciousness to show—as the NSA documents themselves do—that it is impossible to separate this system from the national security and surveillance state. This means publishing stories that expose the links between domestic prisons, policing, and criminal justice policies and Guantanamo, drones, and post-9/11 foreign policy. It means reminding our readers that the government abuses we have seen in War on Terror found expression long ago through the War on Drugs. And it means showing how the same government/corporate relationships and profit incentives that drive belligerent foreign policy and infringements on civil liberties drive domestic criminal justice policies as well.

Finally, it means doing reporting that drives home the human cost of such indefinite, unjust and violent policies, which affect communities the media has been too willing to ignore.

[KoKo]

1. It can't come soon enough! K&R!

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2. K&R for investigative journalism.

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3. kick