Prisons & Policing

The Free Alabama Movement (FAM) seeks to analyze, resist, and transform prison slavery from within the Prison Industrial Complex.

Obama is prepared to use his pardon power to grant clemency to "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of people who have been jailed for nonviolent drug crimes.

The Drug Policy Alliance filed an amicus brief yesterday urging the Louisiana Supreme Court to review the egregious prison sentence of Bernard Noble, a 48-year old man who was …

Questions remain about whether body-worn cameras will curb police violence.

Following the death of two prisoners at New York City's Rikers Island facility, there is mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement.

Outrage is growing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the latest incident in a spate of police shootings.

What a strange moment we're in. Prison 'reform' is in vogue.

A month before the 10-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib torture photos, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel urged a federal appeals court to re-open a …

Incarcerating mothers punishes their children, as well. It's time to reconsider the whole practice, says Samantha Sarra.

In the state of California it costs roughly seven times more to house one prisoner for a year than it does to send just one child to a college …