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Prisons & Policing
Is Trump Using the Death Penalty as an Election Strategy?
This isn't about "public safety." It's about the bloodlust that passes for politics under Trump.
The World Is Turning Against the Death Penalty. Trump Will Resume It.
Barr immediately ordered the execution of five people. Only three federal executions have taken place since 1963.
Rosselló’s Gone, But Puerto Rico’s Fight Against Police Repression Continues
Rosselló's departure is only the beginning of the changes activists are demanding.
Trump’s DOJ Is Resuming the Death Penalty. Bernie Sanders Vows to Abolish It.
The last federal execution was in 2003.
Amid Heat Wave, Many Jails Lack Air Conditioning
Climate change and extreme weather pose a growing threat to the safety of incarcerated people.
Big Banks Are Divesting From Private Prisons, Thanks to Anti-ICE Activism
CoreCivic and GEO Group, the two largest private prison companies, stand to lose $1.9 billion in financing.
1970s Activism Laid Foundation for Today’s Prison Abolitionist Feminism
Grassroots feminist activism in the 1970s resisted the inclusion of imprisonment and policing in their struggles.
How Feminists Resisted Prisons and Policing in the 1970s
"All Our Trials" offers a history of feminists who challenged the idea that the state could end gender violence.
Eric Garner Family Outraged DOJ Won’t Prosecute His Murder by Police
A medical examiner testified that the chokehold led to Garner’s death, which was ruled a homicide.
Outrage Over Ice Cream Licker Should Prompt Us to Ask: What Is a Crime?
No one called it a crime when 10 people were hospitalized after eating Listeria-tainted Blue Bell ice cream.