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Prisons & Policing

Donnell Murray with his son.
News
Prisons & Policing

How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases

Donnell Murray’s trial shows what happens when police and prosecutors use their most powerful tools against Black men.
by
Josmar Trujillo,
Truthout
October 22, 2021
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Former prisoners of Rikers Island, family members of prisoners who have died at the jail and advocates for closing Rikers Island protest the deaths of 12 prisoners in 2021 on October 1, 2021, outside of City Hall in downtown Manhattan, New York.
Interview
Prisons & Policing

Rikers Island and the Shapeshifting Monster of Reform

“We’re talking about a hostage situation and the answer is to free the hostages,” says Kelly Hayes.
by
Kelly Hayes,
Truthout
October 21, 2021
Truthout
Advocates Demand Action At Rikers Island Jail
News Analysis
Prisons & Policing

Rikers’ Forceful Guard Union Is Deepening the Jail’s Humanitarian Crisis

Rikers Island guards appear to be engaging in work stoppages to demand more guards and less oversight of their abuses.
by
Jarrod Shanahan,
Truthout
October 17, 2021
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People display a sign reading "COVID BEHIND BARS = DEATH" during an outdoor protest
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

I’ve Spent 35 Years in Prison. I Live Each Day Fearing Another Wave of COVID.

The pandemic has only exacerbated the poor conditions that I’ve experienced for 35 years in prison.
by
Henry Messenger,
Truthout
October 13, 2021
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A "Safety Ambassador" with the Downtown Ventura Partners Improvement District hands out a free face mask on August 11, 2020, in Los Angeles, CA.
News
Prisons & Policing

“Business Improvement Districts” Quietly Privatize the Policing of Public Space

These corporate zones operate as an arm of forcible social control to ward off perceived threats to the flow of profit.
by
Tyler Walicek,
Truthout
October 10, 2021
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President Joe Biden puts his arm on Sen. Rob Portman outside the White House on June 24, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Sens. Portman and Joe Manchin have sponsored the FIGHT Fentanyl Act, which would classify fentanyl analogs as schedule I drugs indefinitely.
News
Prisons & Policing

Biden Aims to Keep Trump Drug Policy That Widened Racial Disparities

Criminal legal reformers blame the Trump-era policy for increasing overdoses and worsening mass incarceration.
by
Igor Derysh,
Salon
October 8, 2021
Truthout
Interview
Prisons & Policing

Police Reform Is Not Enough to Protect Black Lives

Human rights lawyer Derecka Purnell argues that police reform is an inadequate compromise to calls for abolition.
by
Amy Goodman &
Juan González,
Democracy Now!
October 6, 2021
Truthout
Police in riot gear force people off a street as they protest the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. on April 27, 2021, in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
News
Prisons & Policing

New Study Shows More Than Half of Police Killings Have Gone Uncounted Since 1980

The study also showed that Black people are 3.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white people.
by
Mike Ludwig,
Truthout
October 5, 2021
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Faustina Alvarado Garcia (left) sits next to her daughter Madelin Souza Alvarado, 11, as she adjusts her ankle monitor in the community room at Hamilton shelter in San Francisco, California, on June 18, 2019. Her ankle monitor was put on her by immigration and has been causing her pain.
News
Prisons & Policing

Electronic Monitoring Has Widened Its Net Amid COVID

The merging of location tracking and biometrics has increased the potential for criminalization through technology.
by
James Kilgore &
Emmett Sanders,
Truthout
October 4, 2021
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A NYPD officer gets zip ties ready to handcuff protesters during a "Defund the Police" protest outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the MET Gala in New York City, on September 13, 2021.
News
Prisons & Policing

Data Leak Reveals at Least 2 NYPD Officers Have Links to the Oath Keepers

The New York Police Department opened an investigation after leak of emails between officers and the far right militia.
by
Jon Skolnik,
Salon
October 3, 2021
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