Prisons & Policing

Privacy is fundamental to free expression, and the FBI has a long history of chilling speech and policing dissent.

The calls from activists for accountability for police murder continue to grow in Seattle after another fatal police shooting.

Fifteen states allow prosecutors unfettered power to decide whether a child will be tried in a juvenile or adult court.

The former Black Panther spent more time in solitary confinement than anyone in the United States.

The lawsuit presents an unusual argument that attempts to make citizens pay for the hazards of policing.

Larry Yarbrough has spent more than 20 years serving a life without parole sentence for possession of a single ounce of cocaine.

The very amendment to the US Constitution that was to have performed the miraculous conversion of “chattel into man” actually facilitated his and her re-chattelization through imprisonment.

Is the problem simply that too many people are incarcerated—or is incarceration a problem, in and of itself?

People with means can buy their freedom; those without access to money sit in jail - sometimes for months or even years - while their case works its way …

Are gang raids and so-called “community” policing efforts really decreasing violence in US cities?