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Leonard Peltier Is Released After Nearly 50 Years in Prison
The 80-year-old activist, who always maintained his innocence, will serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement.
Family of a Woman Killed in Her Home by a Sheriff’s Deputy Wins $10M Settlement
“My heart is heavy today. This is my daughter’s birthday,” said Sonya Massey’s father in a press conference Wednesday.
Federal Judge Blocks Transfer of 3 Trans Women to Men’s Prison
Trans people face a heightened risk of violence when confined in prison facilities that don’t align with their gender.
Migrant Sex Workers’ Resistance Offers a Blueprint for Fighting Authoritarianism
Hyper-criminalized migrant sex workers show us how everyday people evade, defy and resist state control and punishment.
Appalachian Activists Reclaim and Rewild Land Slated as Site for New Prison
The group will return the land to Native stewardship, healing it from past mining and blocking prison expansion.
Kash Patel Is “One of Donald Trump’s Most Disturbing” Picks, Journalist Warns
Project 2025 calls for hiring more FBI agents with the goal of finding journalists’ sources and imprisoning them.
With Trump Back in the White House, What Will Happen to Guantánamo?
The Biden administration never released the last prisoners held without charge or brought the accused to trial.
10 States Fund Carceral Facilities and Programs Using Stolen Indigenous Lands
The land was taken from 57 Indigenous nations, through 71 land cessions, some of which are still contested to this day.
CA Law Allows Low Wages for Incarcerated Firefighters as “Involuntary Servitude”
Voters in November rejected a ballot measure that would've made it easier to change prisoners' working conditions.
11 Men Freed After Decades in Guantánamo Bay Prison
Rights groups call on the Biden administration to release Guantánamo’s last 15 prisoners and close it once and for all.