155 posts found for ‘prison industrial complex’

After decades of study, the EPA was finally ready to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide linked to autism and ADHD. Then Trump was elected president.

In "Another Day in the Death of America," author Gary Young explores the gun violence that takes the lives of seven children every day.

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.

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.

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.

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.