Prisons Are Skimming Big Chunks of CARES Act Stimulus Checks
A September court ruling promised incarcerated people their slice of the federal stimulus. Some prisons still took a cut.
Justice
Protests for Black Lives
LAPD Sought Ring Home Security Video Related to Black Lives Matter Protests
Emails show that the LAPD repeatedly asked camera owners for footage during the demonstrations, raising First Amendment concerns.
Voices
In Furor Over Poet With Child Porn Conviction, Prison Abolitionists Debate the Limits of Mercy
Is Poetry magazine "platforming toxicity" or promoting the "practice of freedom"?
Adam Schiff’s Tough-On-Crime Background Complicates His Push to Be California AG
Dozens of racial and criminal justice groups wrote an open letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom opposing a possible Schiff appointment.
Policing the Pipeline
Minnesota Police Want a Pipeline Company to Pay for Weapons Claimed as PPE
Police monitoring Enbridge Line 3 pipeline opponents submitted invoices for tear gas, batons, flash-bang grenades, and other riot gear.
Texas and the Racist Machinery of Death
In his new book, journalist Maurice Chammah explores the rise and fall of capital punishment in Texas and what it means for the country.
Voices
Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy
An excerpt from the new book “Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.”
The Coronavirus Crisis
ICE Threatened to Expose Asylum-Seekers to Covid-19 if They Did Not Accept Deportation
Amid a rush of deportations, four detainees at two different ICE detention centers said that guards threatened to put them in Covid-19 wards.
Out for Blood
After Trump’s Execution Spree, Lingering Trauma and a Push for Abolition
As momentum builds to abolish the federal death penalty, the loved ones of those killed in Terre Haute have just started to grieve.
The War on Immigrants
Border Patrol Beat an Immigrant to Death and Then Covered It Up
Former DHS supervisors say the killing and cover-up were part of a pattern.