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Tackling Debtors’ Prisons: Reflecting on the Death of Eileen DiNino
The death of a Pennsylvania mother in jail last week has once again highlighted the punitive cycle of criminal justice debt.
In a Maryland Jail, Teens Charged as Adults Face Isolation and Neglect
These young people, thought to number in the thousands across the country, are trapped in a kind of purgatoryu2013facing charges in adult court and held in adult facilities.
Being Poor Has Never Been A Crime In Our Country. Until Now.
They're turning yet another wing of the “justice” system into a straight-out profit center.
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The Border Is the Problem: Resisting the “Humanitarian” Solution to Child Migration
We are urgently in need of an analysis of the very complicated child detention economy.
Beyond Drones and Stop-and-Frisk
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton seems incapable of emerging from the broken windows mindset which depends on destroying the dignity of poor people of color.
Detainees at Pinal County Jail Demand End to Detention Contract with ICE
Advocates stand with detainees to denounce inhumane conditions.
Ninety-Nine Problems but a Ban on Francis Goldin Ain’t One
Frances Goldin has not only served as Abu-Jamal's literary agent, but as one of the most vocal and relentless advocates for his release based on both his innocence and …
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A Question of Torture
Apart from the individual moral dilemma facing a judge of having to choose between saving the prisoner's life from certain suicide or prohibiting a torturous practice, this ruling within …
Lobby on Capitol Hill to Free the Cuban Five
Solidarity was being sung on Capitol Hill this week as activists from 31 countries lobbied for the freedom of the Cuban Five.
When Nudity is Contraband
Frances Goldin has not only served as Abu-Jamalu2019s literary agent, but as one of the most vocal and relentless advocates for his release based on both his innocence and …