How the Federal Government Undermines Prison Education
Access to education behind bars lowers the odds of recidivism by 48 percent. So why is there still a ban on Pell Grants for prisoners?
Justice
The End of Roe
What Brett Kavanaugh’s Dishonest Anti-Abortion Dissent Reveals About His Supreme Court Agenda
Kavanaugh's first Supreme Court dissent is a mess of omissions and misrepresentations.
Locked Inside a Freezing Federal Jail, They United to Protest Their Conditions — Only to Face Reprisals
In some units where incarcerated people protested, the toilets were shut off — leaving them sleeping next to their own feces.
Jair Bolsonaro Praised the Genocide of Indigenous People. Now He’s Emboldening Attackers of Brazil’s Amazonian Communities.
Invasions of Indigenous territories by land grabbers have spiked since Bolsonaro took office and immediately rolled back federal protections.
Voices
Amazon Pullout Shows What Anti-Capitalist Organizing and Leftist Politicians Can Do
New York's old Democratic order — in the vein of Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio — backed Amazon's move, while a new crop of social democrats bucked it.
The War on Immigrants
Immigrant Rights Groups Trash Border Deal: “Immigrant Families Will Pay the Price”
Democrats had pushed for cuts to ICE's detention budget, but ceded that demand in the interest of moving negotiations forward.
Rape Victim Who Smuggled DNA Evidence Out of Rikers Wins Settlement
A woman raped by Rikers guards has settled a lawsuit against New York City, which she accused of “deliberate indifference” to sexual abuse at the jail.
North Dakota Seeks to Restrict Access to Public Records After Standing Rock Reporting Exposed Law Enforcement Abuses
A new bill would prevent the release of records related to security operations involving “critical infrastructure,” which includes fossil fuel pipelines.
The War on Immigrants
How the U.S. Weaponized the Border Wall
The idea of weaponizing the border reaches back to at least the 1970s, when the U.S. began to turn its attention away from the Vietnam War.
Voices
Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons
“This recent crisis at MDC has brought new attention to an old reality. What has taken place at MDC is not exceptional.”