2011 retrospectives look at criminal justice stories, x 10

See Jordan Smith's Top Ten Criminal Justice stories of 2011 at the Austin Chronicle, which has some crossover but quite a few differences (in part due to geographic focus) from Grits list of the ten biggest Texas criminal justice stories of the year. The website The Crime Report published a similar ten-stories list with a national focus. Relatedly, Jordan Smith also has a top-ten list of the biggest marijuana-related stories, and Phil Smith from Stop the Drug War has a list the top ten national drug-war stories. A good set of links to have if you like your news retrospectives to come in multiples of ten.