criminal justiceGearThey Bought Tablets in Prison—and Found a Broken PromiseBy Gabrielle CaplanGearThe Case of the Not-Stolen AirPodsBy Lauren Goode and Michael CaloreIdeasInmates Need Internet to Prepare for Life After PrisonBy Luke Elliott SommerIdeasRobot Lawyers Are About to Flood the CourtsBy Keith PorcaroIdeas‘Clean Slate’ Justice Laws Offer a Second Chance—Only to SomeBy Sarah Esther LagesonIdeasSex-Offender Laws Sent a Man to Prison Over a Prayer LivestreamBy Sarah Esther LagesonBusinessHow Covid Gums Up the Court SystemBy Victoria BekiempisScienceCops Are Getting a New Tool For Family-Tree SleuthingBy Megan MolteniIdeasCovid-19 Proves It's Time to Abolish ‘Predictive’ PolicingBy Hannah SassamanSecurityFacebook and Twitter Want to Keep the Justice System SkewedBy Gilad EdelmanIdeasVideo-Chat Juries and the Future of Criminal JusticeBy Michael WatersBusinessAlgorithms Were Supposed to Fix the Bail System. They Haven'tBy Tom SimoniteArtificial IntelligenceAn AI-Run World Needs to Better Reflect People of ColorBy Angela BentonBusinessAlgorithms Should’ve Made Courts More Fair. What Went Wrong?By Tom SimoniteSecurityAnkle Monitors Aren’t Really a More Humane Form of PrisonBy James Kilgore and Emmett SandersThe Big StoryThe Strange Life of a Murderer Turned Crime BloggerBy Kenneth R. RosenSecurityFlorida Could Start a Criminal-Justice Data RevolutionBy Issie LapowskySecurityCrime-Predicting Algorithms May Not Beat Untrained HumansBy Issie LapowskySecurityHow the Government Hides Secret Surveillance ProgramsBy Louise MatsakisBusinessThis App Collects Spare Change to Bail People Out of JailBy Victoria LawThe Big StoryThe Covert Code Transforming How Courts Treat DNA EvidenceBy Jessica PishkoSecurityInmates Need Social Media. Take It From a Former PrisonerBy Chandra BozelkoSecurityWhy Many Deaf Prisoners Can’t Phone HomeBy Christie ThompsonSecurityThe Promise and Pitfalls of Tech-Driven JusticeBy Issie LapowskyMore Stories