Prisons & Policing

Once corporations have legal immunity for cooperation with intelligence agencies, reclaiming rights that have been secretly annulled will be much more difficult, says author Beatrice Edwards.

This Mother's Day, Shanesha Taylor, a 25-year old homeless and unemployed mother, will be fighting for her freedom and her children for committing the unspeakable crime: trying to feed …

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 …