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Dems Claim to Oppose Mass Incarceration, But Blue State Commutations Are Falling
Commutations plummeted from 2020 record highs in California and Illinois. Are presidential ambitions to blame?
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.
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.
Private Equity Is Using Prison Phone, Food and Health Systems to Rack Up Profits
Private equity firms are capturing systems people in prison use and making them even more brutal and unaccountable.
From Death Row, Keith LaMar Has Built a Movement for Love, Art and Abolition
LaMar's album "Freedom First," recorded with pianist and composer Albert Marquès, has become a key part of his campaign.
Attica Was More Than a Riot. It Offered a Framework for Revolutionary Struggle.
Orisanmi Burton discusses the Black radical organizing that preceded and followed the Attica prison uprising.
Mother Sues Alabama Jail After Being Forced to Give Birth Alone in a Shower
Alabama jailed Ashley Caswell on charges of endangering a fetus, then made her give birth without medical support.
Supreme Court Let Texas Execute a Man Sentenced on Allegedly Faulty Evidence
A stay issued by an appeals court could have saved Jedidiah Murphy, but justices voted 6-3 to waive it.