Prisons & Policing

Here are three interlocking cycles that fuse into the vortex of second-tier citizenship for Black America: a pre-existing racialized poverty, aggressive policing and voter disenfranchisement.

Robert Boyle and Jose Saldana discuss more.

The new policy for automatic deportation or indefinite detention would reverse previous guidelines.

With X-Race Specs, see through to the real threat!

The doctrine of qualified immunity has been repeatedly invoked to quash litigation brought against police officers.

Cops lie under oath so often they even have a nickname for the practice.

Make no mistake: Solitary confinement is torture.

How a weapon of war got approved for police use.

Fears and superstitions around HIV still abound.

Community outrage follows the police murder of an undocumented teen.