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Prisons & Policing

Federal Judge Blocks Transfer of 3 Trans Women to Men’s Prison
Trans people face a heightened risk of violence when confined in prison facilities that don’t align with their gender.

Migrant Sex Workers’ Resistance Offers a Blueprint for Fighting Authoritarianism
Hyper-criminalized migrant sex workers show us how everyday people evade, defy and resist state control and punishment.

Appalachian Activists Reclaim and Rewild Land Slated as Site for New Prison
The group will return the land to Native stewardship, healing it from past mining and blocking prison expansion.

Kash Patel Is “One of Donald Trump’s Most Disturbing” Picks, Journalist Warns
Project 2025 calls for hiring more FBI agents with the goal of finding journalists’ sources and imprisoning them.

With Trump Back in the White House, What Will Happen to Guantánamo?
The Biden administration never released the last prisoners held without charge or brought the accused to trial.

10 States Fund Carceral Facilities and Programs Using Stolen Indigenous Lands
The land was taken from 57 Indigenous nations, through 71 land cessions, some of which are still contested to this day.

CA Law Allows Low Wages for Incarcerated Firefighters as “Involuntary Servitude”
Voters in November rejected a ballot measure that would've made it easier to change prisoners' working conditions.

11 Men Freed After Decades in Guantánamo Bay Prison
Rights groups call on the Biden administration to release Guantánamo’s last 15 prisoners and close it once and for all.

Biden Should Go Beyond Commutations for Death Row and Commute Life Sentences Too
It's long past time to repair the harm done by sentencing guidelines that President Biden supported as a senator.

Biden Is About to Hand Over a Vast and Unconstitutional DNA Database to Trump
Every person’s privacy, security and civil rights are implicated by this program.

Mass Incarceration Traps More Than 180K Veterans in Military-to-Prison Pipeline
They can also be denied services and benefits -- or opportunities for citizenship -- promised by military recruiters.

60 Years After Assassination of Malcolm X, a Lawsuit Aims to Uncover the Truth
The outcome of this lawsuit will have broad ramifications for movements facing state surveillance and repression today.

Officials Knew About Violence in Prison Where Robert Brooks Was Fatally Beaten
Watchdogs called on officials to investigate racist human rights abuses at Marcy Correctional Facility back in 2023.