
Category: human rights


More Women Are Being Detained as Jail Populations Near Pre-COVID Levels

26 Dems in Congress Urge DOJ to Continue Moratorium on Federal Executions

In Many Child Welfare Cases, Most of Your Constitutional Rights Don’t Apply

Let 2023 Be the Year of Dismantling Incarceration

“An Absolute F**cking Disgrace”: Record 6,036 US Kids Killed, Injured by Gunfire in 2022

John Kiriakou: CIA Should Get Out of the Laboratory

The First Big Strike of 2023 May Happen Behind Prison Walls

Illinois Will Be the First State to Eliminate Cash Bail. Here’s Why Women Led the Push for Reform.

As Temperature Drops, Incarcerated People Prepare for Dangerously Cold Conditions

The Holidays are the Most Painful Time of the Year to be Behind Bars

Incarcerated Organizers Who Won Their Freedom Now Facing Deportation

2022 Was Rikers Island’s Deadliest Year. Again.

Despite US Opposition, UN Passes Resolution Condemning Death Penalty

After 41 Years in Prison, Mumia Abu-Jamal May Finally Get a Chance for New Trial

US Plans To Build Jerusalem Embassy on Palestinian Land

Zelensky Looks to Ban Christian Denomination With Ties to Moscow

Death in Qatar, but No Just Compensation for Families Back Home

Inter-American Commission Hears Landmark Case of Torture and Killing by US Border Patrol

Voters in Four States Approve Bans on Forced Prison Labor

John Kiriakou: American Gulag

Safe Tap Water Should Be a Human Right

[rewind] Indigenous Peoples Day: CANCEL COLUMBUS!

Kevin Cooper: The Truth

[rewind] Kevin Sharp: It’s Time to Free Leonard Peltier, America’s Longest Serving Political Prisoner

Chris Hedges: The Puppets and the Puppet Masters

America Stands with World’s Dictatorships in Commitment to Death Penalty

Despite Three Botched Executions, Alabama Plans to Kill a Fourth Man Next Month
