Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005.

Under a new law that went into effect this month, it is now a crime to refuse to turn a decryption key over to the police.

How, after decades of undeniable racial progress, did we end up with this virtual gulag of racial incarceration?

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