Prisons & Policing

Candice Bernd discusses the epidemic of police brutality in Albuquerque and how the USDA now has sub-machine guns at its disposal.

No organization keeps data about the number of victims of police-perpetrated sexual violence.

In which the remarkable lack of criminal prosecutions coming from the Justice Department in the aftermath of the financial crisis is explained, also the heightened danger to finance insider …

Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face. It can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly hasn't worked, and it's costing …

While the NSA argues that the biggest risk of terrorism is the possibility of a hack attack on our banking system by unspecified assailants, the mortal danger facing the …

The City of New York has reportedly agreed to pay $40 million to five men wrongfully convicted of raping a female jogger in Central Park 25 years ago.

They're turning yet another wing of the "justice" system into a straight-out profit center.

Secret collaboration between profit-making corporations and public agencies, such as the FBI and the NSA, which are empowered to target citizens for investigation and potential punishment, have brought down …

Frances Goldin has not only served as Abu-Jamal's literary agent, but as one of the most vocal and relentless advocates for his release based on both his innocence and …

Solidarity was being sung on Capitol Hill this week as activists from 31 countries lobbied for the freedom of the Cuban Five.