Prisons & Policing

Baz Dreisinger visits nine countries to see how the exportation of US prison system leads to incarceration nations.

Protests are continuing in Milwaukee two days after police shot dead a 23-year-old African-American man named Sylville Smith.

We need a robust Third Amendment to protect us not just from the military but also from militarized police.

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.