Protests

In today's On the News segment: After weeks of threatening filibuster reform, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a closed-door meeting with the entire Senate last night.

The legal system has been grotesquely deformed in most cities to, in essence, shut public space to protesters.

As more states push to re-evaluate their budgets, a movement aiming to shift funding from jails to schools and other support services is gaining steam nationwide.

Civil rights groups are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to file civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.

Protests were held across the country this weekend after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty on charges of second-degree murder.

They don't know who they are or what they're fighting for nor whom or what they are fighting against.

‘One of the worst challenges I have faced is witnessing so many other SHU prisoners lose their minds.’

Marie Levin, sister to Ronnie Dewberry, a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, describes how he was not allowed to donate a kidney …

Paul Redd, a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, was sent to the SHU for political organizing. He talks about being cut off …

Attorney Michael Ratner on the 30,000 California prisoners on hunger-strike and their solidarity with prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the occupied territories of Palestine.