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Prisons & Policing
Prisoners’ Families Organize to Resist Incarceration and Its Costs
Increasingly, women relatives of prisoners are organizing to challenge high costs and fight the laws that fuel mass incarceration.
Is Campaign Cash From Police Unions Watering Down Democrats’ Reform Efforts?
Police unions and lobbying organizations have spent millions to influence politicians since 2008, with much of that money going to Democrats.
Justice Can Be Served Without Putting Kids Behind Bars
In Seattle, with restorative justice as a galvanizing theme, organizers are creating more than policies and resolutions, but an actual movement.
Even in Government-Run Prisons, the Profiteering off of Human Lives Is Staggering
A wide range of companies, organizations, individuals and even towns profit economically or politically from prisons.
Certiorari Denied: Remembering the Roberts Court’s Abandonment of Torture Victims
The Court in recent years has sent an appalling message of indifference and impunity.
Richard Glossip to Be Executed in Oklahoma Today Despite New Evidence
Death row prisoner Richard Glossip is slated to be executed this afternoon.
Alternatives to Detention to Be Run by Private Prison Contractors
US Immigration announced an alternative to detaining families seeking asylum - give the contract to a private prison contractor.
We Charge Genocide: The Emergence of a Movement
The plan was to challenge police violence against youth of color in Chicago, and charge the US with genocide.
Richard Glossip Granted Two-Week Stay of Execution
An Oklahoma appeals court granted death row prisoner Richard Glossip a last-minute stay.
As James Blake Calls for James Frascatore’s NYPD Badge, Hear Firsthand Account of Cop’s Violent Past
Several other cases have yet to be reported.