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Prisons & Policing
A Federal Court Will Decide Whether Atlanta Voters Could Have a Say on Cop City
This could be a test case for citizen ballot initiatives in Atlanta, and possibly across the state.
Police Tech Isn’t Designed to Be Accurate — It’s Made to Exert Social Control
Policing technologies are inaccurate by design.
When the FBI Is Asked to Go After the Right, It Inevitably Comes for the Left
The FBI was never meant to address right-wing extremists. We can’t look to it to stop the right.
Report: TX County Lawyers Failed to Provide Basic Services for Death Row Clients
“It is clear that Harris County’s current system of death penalty representation is not working,” the report stated.
McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King and Wendy’s Rely on Alabama Prison “Slavery”
Incarcerated Alabamans “are trapped in this labor trafficking scheme,” a new federal class action lawsuit says.
Survivors of UPenn’s Medical Experiments Demand Reparations
Formerly incarcerated women demand accountability for enduring harm in University of Pennsylvania medical experiments.
So-Called “Child Welfare” Tears Families Apart. How Can We Repair This Harm?
Activists are organizing to end punitive family policing policies that unnecessarily separate children from families.
NYPD Has Used Drones to Monitor Pro-Palestine Protests, Make 239 Arrests
“This is a local police department that increasingly acts like a national intelligence agency,” one expert said.
In New York, Inadequate Treatment Is Turning Drug Arrests Into Death Sentences
Deaths related to detoxification at a Syracuse jail show why jail is still not the place to address the opioid crisis.
I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.
The United Nations is calling on the U.S. to abolish life without parole prison sentences.