Instead, Private Prisons Benefited By Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke PHILIPSBURG, Pennsylvania, Aug 7 (Reuters)—As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to end for-profit immigration detention, saying: “No business should profit…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…