Year in Review 2019
The State of the Death Penalty, Bad Policing, and Backsliding on Roe: The Intercept's 2019 Justice Coverage
A look back at The Intercept’s must-read justice stories from 2019.
Justice
Voices
Don’t Forget That Saudi Arabia Is Imprisoning and Torturing Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul
Loujain al-Hathloul fought for women to be able to drive in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom arrested her and is torturing her in a dark dungeon in Riyadh.
The War on Immigrants
How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants
ICE emails provide a rare inside look at the agency’s use of Facebook and commercial data brokers to track down an immigrant in California.
Voices
The Inspector General's Report on 2016 FBI Spying Reveals a Scandal of Historic Magnitude: Not Only for the FBI but Also the U.S. Media
The massive spying improprieties on the part of the FBI is as much a media scandal as it is a scandal for the agency and its leaders.
Voices
How the Prosecution of Animal Rights Activists as Terrorists Foretold Today's Criminalization of Dissent
A new documentary “The Animal People” tells the story of the SHAC 7, who were sentenced to prison on terrorism charges over their protest activity.
The War on Immigrants
Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
Border Patrol agents have arrested 71 people at the Spokane bus depot this year, part of a nationwide increase in immigration enforcement on Greyhound buses.
The War on Immigrants
The Government Has Taken At Least 1,100 Children From Their Parents Since Family Separations Officially Ended
Border Patrol agents, untrained in child welfare, decide that some parents are unfit to stay with their children based on brief interactions in detention.
Pipeline Giant Energy Transfer and Its Private Security Contractors Face Bribery Charges in Pennsylvania
In a “buy-a-badge scheme,” Energy Transfer and the security firm TigerSwan allegedly paid elected constables to guard the Mariner East 2 pipeline.
Voices
Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Is an Engine of Anti-Muslim Hate the World Over. Don't You Care?
What happened to the guy who told his Muslim employees in 2015 that he would “fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment”?
New Legislation Aims to End the "School to Confinement Pathway"
Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s Ending PUSHOUT Act would create incentives to end school discipline policies that disproportionately punish girls of color.