153 posts found for ‘prison industrial complex’

The U.S. government says Flaviu Georgescu was an arms dealer who wanted to sell weapons to terrorists. So why did he call the CIA to tell the agency what he was doing?

Tennie White's work as an activist forced big corporations to clean up the messes they made in African-American communities. So the EPA put her in jail.

Youths struggle with suicide in Russia but a restrictive law makes it difficult to publish articles and books about their troubles, especially for the LGBT community.

Donald Trump is treating the health of the planet as a short sell. The deadly game? Make as much money for big oil as possible before the planet burns.

Yassin al-Haj Saleh has been a vociferous critic of a growing international consensus that has come to see the Syrian conflict in Bashar al-Assad’s terms — as a fight against terrorism.

After my first FBI raid I started reading those little guides on life in prison that one finds online and noticed several references to role-playing games.

The U.S. Department of Justice said it will ignore a White House report calling for rigorous scientific testing of forensic techniques.

Contemporary technologies have made decarceration more palatable for tough-on-crime politicians by extending the carceral state beyond brick and mortar. But 2016 could sideline even the most muted reform bills.

Bearing its dark legacy from the dictatorship era, the Brazilian secret service, ABIN, fights to increase its budget and prestige in the state's hierarchy.

In the United States, 88 people have been arrested on charges of supporting ISIS since 2014. <em>The Intercept</em> has constructed brief portraits of nine of them.