Prisons & Policing

“OverCriminalized” tackles how police handle mental health, substance abuse and homelessness.

The state allegedly violated requirements to separate foster children from adult inmates in prison or other secure detention.

Organizations that use police scanners to monitor police activities by legally filming cops on duty have said they've experienced retaliation.

An Ohio grand jury has declined to indict the white police officer who fatally shot John Crawford.

Prop. 47 would save up to $900M for state and counties u200bto help keep kids in school and fund victims' services.

Mr. Conway says prisoners were treated like animals; and because he resisted and organized, he was in lockup twenty three and a half hours a day for six years.

The NRA's annual National Police Shooting Competition judges officers on who's best at using lethal weapons.

A district attorney's civil rights unit that will investigate police shootings is a step in the right direction.

We need to put a halt to the systems that hide and perpetuate inequality. We need to decouple from an economy of infinite choice, an economy of disposability.

Two African-American half-brothers have been exonerated of rape and murder after more than 30 years behind bars in North Carolina.