Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Legalization Is Great, if You Live in the Mainstream Like gun laws, there are distinctions of access that dictate who marijuana becomes legal for. By Kelly Hayes , Truthout April 20, 2017 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Was a Police Report Altered to Convict a Man for Murder? Inside a Woman’s Quest to Free Her Brother Jonathan Edelstein, one of the lawyers involved, and with Jennifer Gonnerman, a staff writer for The New Yorker discuss the mystery of the altered report. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 19, 2017 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Massachusetts to Throw Out 21,000 Drug Convictions After State Chemist Tampers Evidence for Nine Years In what may be the largest dismissal of wrongful convictions in US history, Massachusetts will throw out 21,587 criminal drug cases. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 19, 2017 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing The Limits of Police “Reform” When elites get to define the problem, they get to decide what constitutes solving it. By Janine Jackson , FAIR April 18, 2017 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Trump’s War on Urban “Carnage” Was a Ruse The president said he'd "send in the fed" to fix Chicago. On civil rights, he's doing the opposite. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson , OtherWords April 17, 2017 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Legal Chaos in Arkansas as Judges Halt State Plan to Carry Out Unprecedented Spate of Executions Arkansas's plan to carry out an unprecedented series of executions has been thrown into chaos. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 17, 2017 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Jeff Sessions Pushes New War on Drugs While Killing Obama-Era Police Reform Measures Attorney General Jeff Sessions is attempting to shake up policing in the country. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 11, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing What the Shutdown of “Tent City” Jail Says About Grassroots Power For decades, "Tent City" represented the ongoing struggles that Latino communities endure within the US legal system. By Alejandra Gomez , CampaignforAmerica'sFuture April 10, 2017 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Who’s Your Mommy and Daddy? For Migrant Children, It Matters One way to support "DACA-mented" youth is for US citizens and residents to welcome and support their parents. By Jessaca Leinaweaver , Speakout April 7, 2017 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing Observe and Collect: How Law Enforcement Exploits People of Color in Search of Profit The motivating factor behind civil asset forfeiture is not "to serve and protect," but instead to collect property from people of color. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson , Truthout April 7, 2017 Truthout