Barr immediately ordered the execution of five people. Only three federal executions have taken place since 1963.
Prisons & Policing
Rosselló’s departure is only the beginning of the changes activists are demanding.
The last federal execution was in 2003.
Climate change and extreme weather pose a growing threat to the safety of incarcerated people.
CoreCivic and GEO Group, the two largest private prison companies, stand to lose $1.9 billion in financing.
Grassroots feminist activism in the 1970s resisted the inclusion of imprisonment and policing in their struggles.
“All Our Trials” offers a history of feminists who challenged the idea that the state could end gender violence.
A medical examiner testified that the chokehold led to Garner’s death, which was ruled a homicide.
No one called it a crime when 10 people were hospitalized after eating Listeria-tainted Blue Bell ice cream.
Since 2015, mass shooters have killed 339 people in the U.S., while police have used guns to take 4,355 lives.