ICE and Solitary
Solitary confinement is torture. By Rachel Reed People held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, were placed in solitary confinement 14,264 times in the past five years alone—a stunning figure that is likely…
Injustice
Julian Assange’s Grand Inquisitor
Commentary by Chris Hedges The prosecution for the U.S., which is seeking to deny Julian Assange’s appeal of an extradition order, begun by the Trump administration and embraced by the Biden administration, grounded its arguments…
Non-Police Crisis Response Programs Are Working
By Meg O’Connor Over the past three years, tens of thousands of people in crisis have been met with behavioral health specialists and social workers instead of police officers. Interactions like these are taking place…
The Food on Your Table
Brought to You by Prison Labor Jamiles Lartey If you’ve shopped at Walmart, Target, Costco, Whole Foods or many other large grocery chains recently, there’s a chance you purchased food produced by prison labor, according…
Illusions of Safety
On freedom from policing By Mariame Kaba We’re in the midst of yet another bipartisan crime panic. Democratic mayors in San Francisco, Chicago, D.C., Atlanta, and New York City are loudly demanding “law and order”…
White Man’s Justice Is Black People’s Grief
By Kevin Cooper “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, but how you play the game that matters.” That’s what my people are often told. But we are not told that this so-called…
There’s No Justice in a Death Sentence for
My Parents’ Murder Commentary by Megan Smith This month, I stood in front of the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion and asked Roy Cooper to remove all 135 people from our state’s death row and commute…
Force Multipliers
How the criminal, legal, and child welfare systems cooperate to punish families By Emma Peyton Williams The harmful effects of the criminal legal system on children are well-established. For years, evidence has shown that a…
Prison Lockdowns Are Becoming More Frequent
and More Brutal By Silja J.A. Talvi Every morning, Mary Frances Barbee wakes up and experiences a “microsecond of happiness before the terror sets in.” Barbee had a heart attack, transient ischemic attack and then…
Pride Has Always Been About Ending Mass Incarceration
By Andrea Woods, qainat khan We celebrate Pride [2023] in defiance of the almost 500 anti-LGBTQ bills pending or passed in state legislatures around the country. Unsurprisingly, these attacks are turning to the criminal legal…