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Prisons & Policing
Dystopian Nightmare: Eyewitness Decries Police Repression at G20 Summit as 100,000 Take to Streets
Srecko Horvat, who is taking part in the G20 alternative summit, discusses the violence demonstrators have faced in Hamburg, Germany.
Youth Sentenced to Life in Prison Get a Second Chance
A nationwide movement is seeking to end the practice of trying teenage criminal defendants as adults.
All the Police Have to Do Is Utter Those Five Magic Words
CounterSpin interviews Ronnie Dunn on the Philando Castile verdict.
DOJ Withdraws Funding Request for Kentucky Prison on Mountaintop-Removal Site
Prison would have been terrible for health of prisoners and local wildlife, say advocates.
“America Is on Trial”: Historian Ibram X. Kendi on the Failure to Convict Cops Who Kill Black People
Historian Ibram X. Kendi discusses the acquittal of the police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile and what it means.
Women in California’s Largest Immigrant Prison Hold Hunger Strike
This month, 33 women incarcerated by ICE in California's Adelanto Detention Facility launched a hunger strike.
“Philando Can Be Any of Us”: Black Lives Matter Protests Acquittal of Officer in Minnesota Killing
In Minnesota, protesters took to the streets Sunday for a third straight day.
How “Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform” Institutionalizes a Right-Wing, Neoliberal Agenda
The US carceral system is not winding itself down as a humanitarian response to the racialized and economic brutalities of mass incarceration.
We Can’t “End Mass Incarceration” if We Erase the Experiences of Criminalized Women
Closing Rikers will not end the mass criminalization of women and girls of color under the criminal legal system.
Prisoners Enduring Extreme Heat Are Casualties of Texas’s Climate Denial
In Texas prisons, the price of climate denial is human lives.