Drug War

The Obama administration and the US Sentencing Commission are allowing drug war prisoners to retroactively apply for commutation and reduced sentences. But will these changes actually allow 71-year-old Phyllis …

In her second book, “Burning Down the House,” Nell Bernstein shows that the fight to abolish juvenile detention facilities and decarcerate youth is far from over.

Last week US authorities began to place ankle bracelets on a few newly arrived immigrants. This represents a continuation of the criminalization and punishment of immigrants. The root causes …

You may have watched fireworks celebrating US independence from colonial rule. However, what if you were to learn that an important factor in the US Revolution was to ensure …

Without federal leadership, you can count on marijuana legalization to keep spreading one state at a time.

There's a new underground railroad for people returning home from prison.

In a letter sent to Obama and the region's other presidents last year, over 145 civil society organizations called out US policies that “promote militarization to address organized crime.”

Chris Moore-Backman examines connections between the struggle for peace in Mexico and the struggle to end the racist system of mass incarceration in the United States.

There's perilous little recognition in the US of how much of the rise in gang violence and drug wars is the direct result of NAFTA.

On June 21, 2014, formerly incarcerated women, family members and advocates gathered in Washington, DC for the FreeHer rally to draw attention to the mass incarceration of women and …