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Prisons & Policing
New Literature Tackles Big Questions on Mass Incarceration
New books on mass incarceration offer fresh information and cast a critical eye on our existing understandings.
NLG Files Urgent Appeal to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Citing Life-Threatening Denial of Medical Care
Mr. Abu-Jamal has life-threatening medical conditions that have been caused and/or exacerbated by his conditions of confinement.
Driver’s License Suspensions: Another Obstacle Perpetuated by the Criminal Legal System
As courts increasingly struggle to address criminal justice debt, this analysis will prove even more potent.
The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest
Thoroughly militarized, surveillance-heavy forces are bringing counterinsurgency thinking from Iraq and Afghanistan back to this country.
In Closed Door Meeting, Police Commissioner Says No New Evidence of Force Injuries to Freddie Gray
Protesters have focused on Baltimore's City Hall.
Police Were Harassing Students Before Monday’s Outrage
Documents show how police engaged in a pattern of abuse since the killing of Freddie Gray.
“Thugs,” “Hooligans” and “Riots,” Challenging Narratives With Dominque Stevenson
Stevenson witnessed the events that precipitated Monday's uprising.
The Collateral Damage of Mass Incarceration
Bryan Stevenson makes a detailed, compelling and personal case that prisons in the United States are filled with victims of injustice.
To Protect and to Sever
The Rise of Privatized Policing: How Crisis Capitalism Created Crisis Cops
With more private security guards than public police officers, what are the consequences for accountability?