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Bloody Violence in South Carolina Prison Shines Light on Inhumane Conditions Across US
At least seven prisoners died and 17 were seriously injured after bloody violence broke out Sunday night.
Judge Suspends Release of Herman Bell, Elderly Black Panther Jailed 45 Years, Amid Police Pressure
Robert Boyle and Jose Saldana discuss more.
ICE Will No Longer Release Pregnant Immigrants From Detention
The new policy for automatic deportation or indefinite detention would reverse previous guidelines.
I Am Buried Alive in a Michigan Prison
Make no mistake: Solitary confinement is torture.
Let’s Imagine a National Organizing Effort to Challenge Mass Incarceration
Prisons and policing sustain US capitalism.
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Even the Right to an Attorney Comes With a Price Tag: 21st Century Debtors’ Prisons
The mass incarceration system in the United States is structured to make poverty itself a crime.
What Jeff Sessions’ Latest Attack Means for the Future of Legal Marijuana
Sessions preserved a “tool” for making arrests.
EPA Adds Prison Locations to Its Environmental Justice Mapping Tool
Activists celebrate move as an advance in the struggle to recognize the environmental rights of incarcerated people.
“No Toilet, No Ventilation”: Prisoners Describe Horrific Conditions in Harvey’s Flood Zone
“We are alive barely,” says one prisoner in Beaumont, Texas.
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Southerners on New Ground’s Bail Out Continues the Radical Tradition of Black August
An organization is once again raising bail money for Black women.