Federal “Countering Violent Extremism” Grants Focus on Minority Communities — Including in Schools
The Brennan Center for Justice examines “CVE” grants focusing on minority communities, which critics say are just a new approach to surveillance.
Justice
NYPD Disputes Gang Database Numbers — but Its Math Doesn’t Add Up
“Those same individuals once subjected to the degradation of multiple stops and frisks are now instead stigmatized as dangerous gang members.”
Voices
How Bernie Sanders Evolved on Criminal Justice Reform
Bernie Sanders took criticism in 2016 for not centering systematic racism and injustices — but he's since come around.
Voices
Law Claiming to Fight Sex Trafficking Is Doing the Opposite — By Cracking Down on Sex Work Advocacy and Organizing
Laws like SESTA-FOSTA are not only making sex work more dangerous, but criminalizing the very organizing and advocacy that would help sex workers stay safe.
Jurors Thought a Gay Man Would Enjoy Prison. They Sent Him to Death Row Instead. Will the Supreme Court Intervene?
Lawyers for Charles Rhines say his death sentence should be overturned based on anti-gay bias that violated his right to an impartial jury and due process.
The War on Immigrants
Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Crackdown Won’t Stop Border Crossings but It Could Break the Courts
There’s no evidence hard-line that immigration enforcement deters border crossers. The administration is cracking down anyway.
“Alt-Right” and Anti-Fascists Unite Against Lawsuit Designed to Prevent Another Charlottesville
White supremacists and anti-fascists want to preserve the right to organize and mobilize — even if that means more violence.
New York Gang Database Expanded by 70 Percent Under Mayor Bill de Blasio
New Yorkers have been added to the NYPD gang database under de Blasio at a rate of 342 people per month, nearly three times the rate of the prior decade.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Camp America Comes Home: Debi Cornwall’s Photos Capture the Eerie Aftermath of Guantánamo
The lawyer-turned-photographer shows life on the periphery of the prison camp — and the former detainees that carry its scars with them.
Paul Manafort Has Inadvertently Helped America by Showing the Absurdities of Its Bail System
Paul Manafort’s indictment has drawn attention to one of the great travesties in the way America treats people accused of crimes: its bail system.