Prisons & Policing

Democracy Now! speaks with Kathy Manley, a longtime lawyer and advocate for prisoner rights who represented John MacKenzie.

Attica, over time, became one of the main destinations for activists linked to the Black Panthers and other revolutionary organizations.

There is no such thing as “good policing” when the “bad police” aren't being held accountable to the people.

Within our current criminal legal system, prosecutors are all-powerful and public defenders, often complicit.

Team Trump seems eager to return to a time when health problems like drug misuse were blamed on moral decay.

Freedom Square invites collaboration with families of police violence as well as intra-community violence, survivors of police torture and brutality and all community residents.

Transformative shifts require an informed and empowered community that is motivated by justice.

Trump's ideology of fear and violence must be countered with a collective movement for real justice and democracy.

As the Democratic National Convention enters its third day, Mumia Abu-Jamal is observing and covering the proceedings from inside a state prison facility.

Who gets to tell what stories, to whom, and under what conditions about the criminal punishment system in Arizona?