Interview | Prisons & Policing Six Charged With Domestic Terrorism for Protesting Atlanta’s “Cop City” The Forest Defenders were urging Atlanta officials to invest in communities, not more policing. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! December 21, 2022 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing These Incarcerated Organizers Won Their Freedom. Now They Face Deportation. After decades in prison, they were paroled and organized for immigrant rights. Pardons would prevent their deportation. By Victoria Law , Truthout December 21, 2022 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Water Protector Defense Attorneys Warn of “Breakdown in Separation of Powers” Prosecutions of Water Protectors in Aitkin County are seven times more likely to remain unresolved than other cases. By Simon Davis-Cohen , Truthout December 20, 2022 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing After 41 Years in Prison, Mumia Abu-Jamal May Finally Get a Chance for New Trial Evidence suggests the prosecutor in Mumia's trial bribed star witnesses to testify and wrongly excluded Black jurors. By Marjorie Cohn , Truthout December 13, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Several US Cities Have Increased Policing of Palestine Solidarity Multiple U.S. cities have adopted a definition of antisemitism that silences Palestinians and expands surveillance. By Danya Zituni , Truthout December 12, 2022 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing After Backlash, San Francisco Board Backtracks Police Use of Exploding Robots City lawmakers voted to move the matter back to a rules committee, which could propose exploring it again in the future. By Chris Walker , Truthout December 7, 2022 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing We Are Living in a Digital Police State. You Can Thank Big Tech. DHS and Silicon Valley have dumped money and new surveillance tech into local police departments across the country. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout December 7, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing New York Mayor’s Plan to Round Up Homeless People Is a Trauma-Inducing Horror It is a horrific rights violation to give police the power to forcibly hospitalize people for being homeless. By Noel Hunter , Truthout December 5, 2022 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing San Francisco City Board Approves Use of Police Robots to Kill Suspects "I’m really just stunned that we’re here talking about this," an opposing member of the city board of supervisors said. By Chris Walker , Truthout November 30, 2022 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing The 2020 BLM Uprising Lives On in Houston’s Struggle Against Police Violence Against the growing and deadly profile of the far right, a BLM campaign in Houston is showing where we go from here. By Seth Uzman , Truthout November 29, 2022 Truthout