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Prisons & Policing
Why Is the US Taking So Long to Close Guantánamo?
As with so much else at Guantánamo, for every step forward, there seem to be two steps back.
UN Security Council Votes to Deploy US-Backed, Kenyan-Led Troops Into Haiti
These UN missions don’t protect the population, they protect multinational investments, says scholar Mamyrah Prosper.
Police Killings of Black and Brown People in US May Be Double Previous Estimates
The Raza Database Project merged data sets from independent research projects to determine the victims’ ethnicities.
North Carolina GOP-Passed Budget Creates “Secret Police,” Critics Warn
“This consolidation of force and coercion is very worrying,” one critic of the provision said.
Criminalized Survivor Tracy McCarter Discusses the Movement to Free Her
McCarter describes being a criminalized survivor of both domestic violence and the legal system.
As Incarcerated Women, We’re Subjected to State Rape
We are often told that DOC policies are for our safety, yet these policies still play a part in retraumatizing us.
As a Black Woman Accused of Killing a White Man, I Was Never Innocent Until Proven Guilty
If we left behind the oppressive systems that deprive people of their very freedom, what could we create instead?
Chicago Nixed Its Racist Database of Gangs. Other Cities Should Follow.
Six years of tireless organizing by a coalition of grassroots activists led to this month’s victory in Chicago.
Inside the High-Security “Black Site” Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated
The prison where the Indigenous activist is held has been in a near-constant state of lockdown for almost four years.
Kansas Technical Institute Is the Story of a Literal School-to-Prison Pipeline
The vocational college once served Black students in Topeka, Kansas. Now, it's the site of a women's prison.