Prisons & Policing

Police in the California city of Anaheim are facing allegations of murder and brutality after fatally shooting two Latino men over the weekend and firing rubber bullets at crowds …

The mini-documentary attempts to portray the internal conflict over police confrontation.

Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis?

An effort to prevent a home eviction in Washington, DC, today turned ugly when US Marshals and local police officers armed with guns and riot shields forcefully removed members …

The average state commission was 42 percent, but some reached as high as 60 percent of the money from the phone calls.

(Photo: Alex Wellerstein / Flickr)The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released another batch of documents Thursday morning in response to Truthout's wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining …

Even though we are 5 percent of the world's population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners in the world.

Registered nurses from across the U.S. today condemned Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for his decision to arrest nurse volunteers, as well as peaceful protesters, in a late night crackdown …

The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug.