New Orleans will jail people living with mental illness in post-Katrina structures that were slated to close years ago.
Prisons & Policing
Civil rights attorney Flint Taylor discusses the past and present fight against Chicago’s systemic racist policing.
Long before Trump, police were using bullying and gaslighting to cover up their own crimes.
Arnold Ventures-backed reforms are undermining radical efforts to end mass incarceration in the U.S.
Prison is racism. Prison is vengeance. Prison is disproportionately inflicted upon descendants of enslaved people.
In 1998, an all-white jury sentenced Reed to die for the murder of Stacey Stites.
The most vulnerable people have the most at stake in questions of policing, but their voices are silenced in data.
The proposal also calls for governments to abolish cash bail.
The private prison industry has formed a new lobbying group called the Day 1 Alliance.
Reed was convicted of raping and murdering Stacey Stites in 1996, but her fiancé has since confessed to the crimes.