Incarceration
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21 Savage and the 50,000 ICE Detainees
Feb 14, 2019The Atlanta-based rapper’s untimely run-in with immigration enforcement agents offers a window into the world of the tens of thousands of immigrants currently locked in ICE jails.
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Rethinking Incarceration
Jan 03, 2019What needs to be done to be done to end our half-century long incarceration nightmare?
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Not Everyone Can Evacuate as Hurricane Florence Approaches
Sep 13, 2018Many in the path of the storm, including poor residents and hundreds of prisoners, are forced to stay put.
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Jeff Sessions and the Conservative Nostalgia for Harsh Sentencing
Aug 15, 2018A new Republican bill would slap nonviolent criminals with 15-year mandatory minimum sentences. White-collar crimes, property crimes, and drug-related offenses would all count toward being considered a “career armed criminal.”
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Davos Man
Jan 23, 2018We can only imagine what Donald Trump will say when he addresses the World Economic Forum at the elite ski resort.
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Both Red and Blue States Rely on Prison Labor
Oct 17, 2017As 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.
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How the Prison Phone Industry Further Isolates Prisoners
Oct 12, 2017The 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.
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In Hurricane Season, Underwater and Behind Bars
Sep 08, 2017The poor, the old, and the disabled seldom seek shelter—because they can’t. And often no one evacuates inmates.
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Conditions Worsen for ICE Detainees Following Hunger Strike
Aug 14, 2017Guards at the Adelanto Detention Center responded to asylum seekers’ hunger strike with violence and pepper spray.
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Mass Incarceration and the Achievement Gap
May 08, 2017The impact of imprisoned parents on children shows how criminal justice policy is education policy.
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How Jeff Sessions Is Laying the Groundwork for Authoritarian Action
Apr 12, 2017The attorney general is courting law enforcement by reducing accountability and renewing a war on people of color.
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Fight for 15 and Black Lives Matter Join Forces on Anniversary of MLK's Death
Apr 04, 2017Forty-nine years after King was assassinated, the left’s organizing vanguards seek to continue his work.
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Poverty’s Punishment: America’s Oppressive Bail Regime
Nov 18, 2016Bail systems across the country continue to function as another way the criminal justice system exacerbates poverty and racial inequality.
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Will Black Lives Matter to the Supreme Court?
Oct 12, 2016Three cases provide cues on how the Court may handle race and criminal justice questions that are roiling the country.
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Recreational Marijuana Ballot Measures Usher In Next Phase in Drug War
Oct 07, 2016With five states poised to vote on legalizing pot, millennials and minority groups are key voting blocs.
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