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Prisons & Policing
Emerging Feminisms, Ideological Abolition: Divesting Ideas (Not Just Money) From the Prison
In a way, both the university and the prison are sites that cultivate either value or disposability in people.
Maya Schenwar on the DOJ Ending Use of Private Prisons: Will Decarceration Follow?
Truthout's Maya Schenwar says the announcement won't affect federal immigration detention centers or state prisons.
What You Need to Know About the DOJ’s Claim It Is Ending Private Prisons
The DOJ's announcement is being met with considerable fanfare, but the plan will not reduce number of people in prison.
Private Prisons Are Far From Ended: 62 Percent of Immigrant Detainees Are in Privatized Jails
What does yesterday's DOJ announcement on private prisons mean for decarceration efforts?
Justice Department Announces Initiative to End Use of For-Profit Prisons
The Justice Department said that it will attempt to cease its use of for-profit prisons.
Black Lives Matter Movement Resulted From Prosecutor Throwing George Zimmerman Case
This Black life, Trayvon Martin's, did not matter to George Zimmerman, nor law enforcement.
Wave of Occupations Marks Step Forward for Black Lives Matter
Activists in New York City seeking to defund the police have successfully occupied City Hall Park for more than a week.
Immigrant Family Detention Center Made For-Profit Prison Company $1 Billion in No-Bid Deal
The deal was made to deter the arrival of asylum seekers.
The United States’ Criminal Injustice System: The Annals of a Private Eye
“I'm just a tiny cog in the United States' vast criminal injustice system,” writes Judith Coburn on her job as a private eye.
Incarceration Nations: On the Dangers of Exporting US Prison Systems
Baz Dreisinger visits nine countries to see how the exportation of US prison system leads to incarceration nations.