Prisons & Policing

The mini-documentary attempts to portray the internal conflict over police confrontation.

Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis?

Support for full marijuana legalization is at an all-time high of 50%.

An effort to prevent a home eviction in Washington, DC, today turned ugly when US Marshals and local police officers armed with guns and riot shields forcefully removed members …

The average state commission was 42 percent, but some reached as high as 60 percent of the money from the phone calls.

(Photo: Alex Wellerstein / Flickr)The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released another batch of documents Thursday morning in response to Truthout's wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining …

Even though we are 5 percent of the world's population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners in the world.

Registered nurses from across the U.S. today condemned Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for his decision to arrest nurse volunteers, as well as peaceful protesters, in a late night crackdown …

Murder without due process is the government act that fundamentally separates free societies from authoritarian regimes.

Leonard Peltier, a great-grandfather, artist, writer, and indigenous rights activist, is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations and has been imprisoned since 1976. (Photo: Leonard Peltier Defense …