Prisons

The current gun hysteria will serve as an excuse to expand the police state.

Toshio Meronek's review of Prisons Will Not Protect You highlights the emphasis by the book's contributors that the Corrections Department isn't in the business of correcting oppression.

State prisons play musical chairs with inmate populations and come up short.

Forty percent of Palestine's male population is, or has been, imprisoned in Israeli jails.

Private prisons maximize profits with a racial twist.

n Detroit, on MLK Day, hundreds gathered to rally and protest against the persistent nightmares of inequality in urban cities nationwide.

To date, Obama has pardoned less than two dozen and commuted even fewer sentences.

Tamms Prison in Illinois, which helped spur a nationwide movement against

Peter Dreier looks back at 2012 and 25 powerful progressive victories, including elections, ballot measures, court rulings, legislation and new waves of mobilization.

The question of whether a sacrifice has been worth the effort often remains an open question for a very long time.