Prisons & Policing

In this episode, Truthout Executive Director Maya Schenwar discusses the harrowing story of her sister giving birth in prison.

Rallies are held nationwide against police brutality, meanwhile the family of Kyam Livingston, who died in a Brooklyn jail after allegedly being denied medical care, filed a wrongful death …

Judges took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit youth jails.

The ACLU and other civil liberties groups say privacy recommendations to help standardize piecemeal legislation aimed at regulating domestic drone technology fall short.

A new campaign exposes the companies that profit off prisoners.

No application for bail is required, and the State is given 30 days to notify Herman if they plan to re-indict him.

The report sheds light on the for-profit private prison industryu2019s reliance on high prison populations, and how they directly benefit its bottom line.

State lawmakers across the U.S. are introducing legislation that would restrict the use of unmanned drones.

The U.S. government was fully aware that the men had no weapons and had never harmed any individual.

Judicial and legislative victories against stop-and-frisk practices do not address how individual fears harden into iron bars of segregation.