Tag: prison
14 guards beat Robert Brooks to death at New York prison...
Outrage and investigations follow the death of Robert Brooks in a violent incident at a New York prison.
After two decades without charge Pentagon repatriates Guantánamo detainee as Biden...
After over two decades without charge, a Guantánamo detainee is repatriated, raising urgent questions about justice and human rights.
Reproductive justice organizers in the South are finding new ways to...
A part of the reproductive justice framework and the driving force is to keep families together, independent of government control.
Blacks and Hispanics seeking parole face widening racial disparity, report finds
New York Times brought the racial disparity to light in 2016 when it reported “that fewer than one in six Black or Hispanic men was released at his first hearing, compared with one in four white men.”
‘Quaint and obsolete?’
As it happens, flagging interest in Guantánamo has coincided with an eerie larger cultural phenomenon—a turn away from history and memory.
Behind bars and beyond burgers: Exposing Alabama’s prison labor exploitation
This lawsuit seeks not only to compensate those who have been exploited, but also to dismantle a system that generates an estimated $450 million annually from this coerced labor.
Privatized prison healthcare in the US—profiteering at the expense of inmate...
Profiting from pain—the harsh reality of privatized prison healthcare in America.
New data tool details thousands of corporations profiting from US prison...
Companies in the database are assigned a "harm score" based on their responsibility for and responsiveness to their human rights violations.
Biden reviews Guantanamo prison; aims to close it before end of...
A revival of an Obama-era goal, President Joe Biden announced the launch of a formal review of the U.S. military prison at...
Four former correctional officers sentenced to prison for beating handcuffed inmate
“The sentences handed down in this case show that law enforcement officers who break the law, violate their oaths, and deprive inmates of their civil rights will be held accountable for their actions.”
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Israel accused of assassinating five Gaza journalists in targeted airstrike
Al Jazeera calls deadly strike on press tent “blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” as press freedom groups warn of pattern of killings and smear campaigns against reporters in Gaza.