Prisons & Policing

This Foreword to Bea Edwards' "The Rise of the American Corporate Security State," describes how peace, financial stability and civil liberties are threatened by the antidemocratic legal regime.

An Occupy Wall Street activist has been found guilty of assaulting a New York City police officer in a trial that critics say should have been about the police …

Across the United States and the world, there is an emerging movement calling for the end of solitary confinement.

Ten years after the first publication of photos from inside the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Al Jazeera journalist Salah Hassan speaks about his torture by US forces inside …

The law's passage is thanks to sustained pressure from the families of shooting victims.

Police departments across the nation are concealing their use of cellphone tracking equipment from local courts.

The announcement comes after civil rights activists pressured more than 150 companies for months.

Vanunu remains under restrictions which require him to report and gain approval for any change in residence, to avoid diplomatic missions, to not speak to foreign nationals and which …

One Tennessee new law proposes to bring back the electric chair should lethal injection drugs prove unavailable. The other would allow for criminal assault charges to be brought against …

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