The law’s passage is thanks to sustained pressure from the families of shooting victims.
Prisons & Policing
Police departments across the nation are concealing their use of cellphone tracking equipment from local courts.
The announcement comes after civil rights activists pressured more than 150 companies for months.
Vanunu remains under restrictions which require him to report and gain approval for any change in residence, to avoid diplomatic missions, to not speak to foreign nationals and…
Obama is prepared to use his pardon power to grant clemency to “hundreds, perhaps thousands” of people who have been jailed for nonviolent drug crimes.
One Tennessee new law proposes to bring back the electric chair should lethal injection drugs prove unavailable. The other would allow for criminal assault charges to be brought…
The Free Alabama Movement (FAM) seeks to analyze, resist, and transform prison slavery from within the Prison Industrial Complex.
The Drug Policy Alliance filed an amicus brief yesterday urging the Louisiana Supreme Court to review the egregious prison sentence of Bernard Noble, a 48-year old man who…
Questions remain about whether body-worn cameras will curb police violence.
Following the death of two prisoners at New York City’s Rikers Island facility, there is mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement.