
Tag: criminal justice


Massive Evidence Storage Facility Fire Sheds Light on Sloppy NYPD Practices

Biden’s Safer America Plan Will Harm Already Hyper-Policed Communities

Ashley Diamond Won a Legal Victory to Protect Incarcerated Trans People in 2016. Now, She’s Suing Again.

Record Police Killings in 2022 Show Need to Continue Organizing for Abolition

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

Let 2023 Be the Year of Dismantling Incarceration

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

California’s Lost History of Lynching Latinos in LA More Than 100 Years Ago

The Year of the Botched Execution

Congress Has One Last Chance to Abolish the Crack Cocaine Sentencing Disparity

Mental Health of Incarcerated LGBTQ+ Youth Is Understudied — But New Analysis Shows Kids Are in Crisis

2022 Was Rikers Island’s Deadliest Year. Again.

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

[rewind] Biden, Free Leonard Peltier

New York Times Fails To See Its Own Hypocritical Practices

John Kiriakou: Pardoning Turkeys Instead of Humans

Building “Feminist Jails” Ignores a Larger Problem

Don’t Expect Mass Prison Releases From Biden’s Marijuana Clemency

Kevin Cooper: My Experience with the Death Penalty

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

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

‘Next Up? Legalize It’: Advocates Cheer Biden Move to Pardon Marijuana Convictions

The U.S. Sees an Unprecedented Investment in Policing Alternatives

‘Habitual Offender’ Laws Imprison Thousands for Small Crimes — Sometimes for Life
