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Kamala Kelkar

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PBS NewsHour

  • Delaware returns to death penalty debate after prison uprising The state has shared little information about the attack and now, “All 120 are considered suspects,” said Jayme Gravell, a corrections spokeswoman. But lawmakers and human rights groups tell completely different stories about what led to the uprising.
  • How a shifting definition of ‘white’ helped shape U.S. immigration policy The concept of whiteness have changed since the 18th century, but white nationalism has historically motivated U.S. immigration policy and social hierarchy.
  • Incarcerated women risk their lives fighting California fires. It’s part of a long history of prison labor This is not the “sexy” story that California corrections was planting.
  • Inside the ‘free speech’ debate that rocked a Wisconsin campus, with ripples across the country National discussions were orchestrated by dark money groups
  • Oklahoma lawmakers, voters disagree on punishments for drug crimes The debate is pitting district attorneys and law enforcement agencies responsible for prosecuting these cases against people like Candida Ulibarri, whose methamphetamine addiction followed years of repressed trauma — and clashed with the judicial system.
  • Residents of this city already worried about the coal-burning plant nearby. Then came Hurricane Maria Between 2004 and 2012, at least 33 sites in Puerto Rico used more than 2 million tons of coal ash for construction.
  • The racial history of the Electoral College — and why efforts to change it have stalled Attempts to change the Electoral College system that were once seen as bipartisan fell victim to the same kind of divide that fueled a federal government shutdown.

PRI's The World

  • Interactive: After the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi's biggest relocation slum was left in isolation Kamala spent a summer visiting women in Delhi’s Bawana JJ Colony

The Guardian

  • Long read: Can a brain scan uncover your morals? Neuroscientists tell juries in death penalty cases that dubious brain scans can shed light on the defendant’s character.

Video

  • This Indian mother takes her husband's abuse to protect her daughter Isolation in Delhi’s biggest relocation slum make domestic abuse even harder to report.

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