Prisons & Policing

Private security companies are making a profit from turning the US/Mexico border into a military zone. Mark Karlin reports.

Oakland recently hired famed police chief William Bratton as a consultant in an effort to find a solution to its ongoing problems with its Police Department

Advocates in Congress say a shift from criminal enforcement to taxation could add $100 billion to the federal budget.

Dean Spade explains how the US became the most imprisoning nation in the world.

A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty.

The Kurdish movement is the greatest challenge to the neoliberal, conservative Turkish government, says international development scholar Baris Karaagac.

What is happening to Muslims will happen to the rest of us.

In the following exclusive interview, Annette Fuentes talks about her work, her book and shares insight into the u201cschool-to-prison pipeline,u201d including zero tolerance policies that puts kids in harmu2019s …

I am an alienist reincarnated, and poetry keeps me sane.

An estimated 80,000 men, women and even children are being held in solitary confinement on any given day in US prisons.