Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When police kill someone, a medical examiner lists their cause of death—which plays a ...

Angela Harris Curry stood by her son’s grave and replayed the voicemail, the only noise in the quiet Fort Lauderdale cemetery aside from chirping birds. The message had come from a nurse who did not ...

George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Daniel Prude – and now D’Vontaye Mitchell – all share something beyond being Black men who died at the hands of public safety personnel: Authorities described the ...

Anton Black was 19 years old when police officers chased him, shackled him, and left him face-down on the ground, struggling to breathe. He died from asphyxiation. Despite tireless objections from his ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. Last week, ...

Does a potentially fatal form of excitement – sometimes called “excited delirium” – exist? It’s hard to imagine there’s a debate about this because, yes, it exists without question. But two things are ...

The term “excited delirium” has been used as a diagnosis to describe people who die suddenly in police custody. But physicians and medical boards have long dismissed excited delirium as unscientific, ...

The move comes as attitudes towards the use of the term appear to be changing, explains journalist Chris Stokel-Walker. For instance, last month Colorado joined California in banning police, medical ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And as we just heard, black victims in the United States are less likely to be believed when reporting cases of sexual violence, and sadly, this racism ...

Doctors use “diagnostic” labels to describe a condition or constellation of symptoms and signs before determining treatment or rendering a prognosis. Diagnostic criteria generally remain static and ...