The holiday season is a time to be spent with loved onesāyet for the nearly 2 million people incarcerated in US jails…
A 1995 robbery gone wrong in the town of Tulare, California, ended with the murder of five people. For years, the police…
Thomas “Tahaka” Gaither was out on parole when then-Gov. Glenn Dennis of Maryland revoked parole for all persons convicted of a life…
After 52 years of incarceration, Edward Alan Poindexter is among the longest serving political prisoners in US and world history. Originally part…
The revelations of widespread torture of detainees at the illegal US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, rattled the American conscience during the…
Former President Donald Trump is facing 34 felony counts in New York State and an additional 37 felony federal charges. None of…
Juneteenth has become a federal holidayāyet prison slavery under the 13th Amendment continues. Uprooting the prison industrial complex is vital to completing…
The topic of solitary confinement was the focus of a recent episode of John Oliverās Last Week Tonight on HBO. Thanks to the hard work of…
The blunt fact about the cash bail system in the US is that it creates a two-tier system of ājusticeā in which…
Over 1.9 million people are incarcerated in the US today, and even greater 5.5 million people are subjected to the wide-ranging system…
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