Prisons & Policing

Environmental justice activists are demanding federal agencies count prison populations when assessing environmental justice impacts.

The rule change request opened a window for public comment, which has since been extended after 45 organizations signed onto a public letter expressing serious concerns.

Hillary and Bill Clinton each played a role in creating some of the disastrous policies that have fueled mass incarceration.

British-owned Serco was just given the green light to negotiate the opening of a family immigrant detention center in Texas.

The Urban Areas Security Initiative appears to be a slush fund for surveillance of activists and police militarization.

A new law in Louisiana could classify the killing of a police officer as a hate crime as part of a continuing pro-police backlash.

We can demand de-incarceration and an end to the US status as the country with more prisoners, per capita, than any other country in the world.

When we say that putting officials in prison for war crimes would be justice, we endorse a criminal justice system that is more criminal than just.

How do we halt the advance of Donald Trump without totally capitulating to piecemeal reforms of the criminal legal system?

Los Angeles high school students and organizers forced police to remove grenade launchers and M-16s from their arsenals.