The two women running for top prosecutor in Arizona’s largest county must confront its history of racial animus and police violence.
Incarceration
Posted inLaw and Justice
Prisons’ Pandemic Response: Throw the Infected Into the Hole
Advocates worry that the increased use of solitary confinement will be difficult to reverse.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What Price Cashless Bail?
A referendum on the California ballot will abolish cash bail but increase preventive detention—splitting state progressives into pro and con camps.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Florida’s Voter Suppression Obsession
Republicans continue to deploy cynical, aggressive maneuvers to prevent returning citizens from voting.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The NBA’s Quiet Problem With Prison Exploitation
Tom Gores, owner of the Detroit Pistons, also owns notoriously abusive prison telecom and banking giant Aventiv.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Prison Officials Block Access to the Media
Journalists are having trouble contacting sources, and inmates who speak on the record face retaliation.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The ICE Facility Where Almost Every Detainee Has Coronavirus
The dark history of the Farmville, Virginia, detention center, run by Immigration Centers of America, a company with a long history of abuse—and political spending
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up
As California attorney general, she spent years subverting a 2011 Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to reduce its prison population. The overseeing judicial panel nearly found the state in contempt of court.
Posted inPolitics
Confessions of a Tough-on-Crime Progressive
Throughout the 1990s, Democrats supported punitive criminal justice laws. The nation has changed, and Democrats must do likewise.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Fighting to Release Prisoners From a COVID-19 Death Sentence
The Bureau of Prisons knows they need to release people to stop the spread of COVID-19. So why aren’t they?