As anti-Asian attacks soar, stoking fear, grassroots groups are creating safety initiatives that don’t rely on policing.
Prisons & Policing
More than 4,000 private corporations in the U.S. have a financial stake in the expansion of the public prison system.
Policing is rooted in upholding white supremacy while enabling racist systems to inflict harm on communities of color.
The change in the policy does not allow incarcerated individuals to vote while in prison.
Protests in Louisville, Kentucky, Saturday marked a year since police killed the 26-year-old Black woman at her home.
The bill gives more money to police while doing nothing to stop the racist war on drugs.
The reprisals against the hunger strikers have included being “sprayed down” with mace within an enclosed cell block.
Incarceration, even in facilities closer to home, is traumatizing for every child who is forced to experience it.
The rules would increase surveillance of incarcerated people while also making written communications inaccessible.
A lawyer for George Floyd’s family said it was “gratifying” to see the DOJ under Biden moving forward on the case.