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Has the NYPD Become a Paramilitary Force?
The New York Police Department has become highly militarized and federalized in the years since September 11.
“Captive Genders”: CeCe McDonald, Chelsea Manning and Others Map Road to Trans Liberation
The anthology's pages brim with anger, grief, hope, humor and daring.
After 13 Years Behind Bars, Shaker Aamer Released From Guantánamo
British resident Shaker Aamer has been freed from Guantanamo.
Private Prisons: Just Bit Players in Mass Incarceration
Focusing on private prison companies deflects attention from the state actors driving the prison industrial complex.
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The FCC Aims to Lower Cost of Prison Phone Calls in Historic Vote
A recently released proposal by the FCC calls for sweeping reform of the prison phone industry, but it does not go far enough.
Prisoners’ Families Organize to Resist Incarceration and Its Costs
Increasingly, women relatives of prisoners are organizing to challenge high costs and fight the laws that fuel mass incarceration.
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Chronic Disease Linked to Poverty Affects Deaths Behind Bars
The most common cause of death while in pre trial detention facilities is not suicide but chronic disease linked to poverty.
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Criminalizing Blackness: A Mississippi Community College’s School-to-Jail Pipeline
In Mississippi, a Black college student was arrested and sent to a penal farm for allegedly sagging his pants.
The World’s Biggest Prison System
Abby Martin explores the dark reality of US prisons.
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“Through a Penal System, Darkly”: Photographer Documents Kingston Penitentiary
This article and photo essay on the penal system invites people to consider what happens behind closed doors.