We can only imagine what Donald Trump will say when he addresses the World Economic Forum at the elite ski resort.
Incarceration
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The New Reformer DAs
As cities grow more progressive, a new breed of prosecutors are winning office and upending the era of lock-’em-up justice. They may hold the key to resisting Trump’s mania for mass incarceration.
Posted inWorking in America
Both Red and Blue States Rely on Prison Labor
As a Louisiana sheriff’s off-the-cuff remarks and the California wildfires remind us, all states depend on and profit from putting prisoners to work—and that’s a problem.Â
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Prison Phone Industry Further Isolates Prisoners
The high profits of expensive phone calls and video visits are often too lucrative for prisons—which can get a share of those profits—to pass up.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
In Hurricane Season, Underwater and Behind Bars
The poor, the old, and the disabled seldom seek shelter—because they can’t. And often no one evacuates inmates.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Conditions Worsen for ICE Detainees Following Hunger Strike
Guards at the Adelanto Detention Center responded to asylum seekers’ hunger strike with violence and pepper spray.
Posted inEducation in America
Mass Incarceration and the Achievement Gap
The impact of imprisoned parents on children shows how criminal justice policy is education policy.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How Jeff Sessions Is Laying the Groundwork for Authoritarian Action
The attorney general is courting law enforcement by reducing accountability and renewing a war on people of color.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Fight for 15 and Black Lives Matter Join Forces on Anniversary of MLK’s Death
Forty-nine years after King was assassinated, the left’s organizing vanguards seek to continue his work.Â
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Poverty’s Punishment: America’s Oppressive Bail Regime
Bail systems across the country continue to function as another way the criminal justice system exacerbates poverty and racial inequality.
