criminal injustice

ICE to Stop Holding Immigrants at Infamous Alabama Jail

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on March 25 that it will stop detaining immigrants at the Etowah County Jail…

March 31, 2022

Biden Plans an Extra $30 Billion to Fund the Police

President Biden doesn’t want to defund the police. Instead, he wants to give them more than $30 billion in additional…

March 29, 2022

Georgia Prisons Are in Crisis—and Punishing Trans Women for It

The Georgia Department of Corrections is in freefall. By the time the US Department of Justice opened an investigation in…

March 28, 2022

Tucson’s Top Prosecutor Pulls Back From No-Minor-Drug-Charges Policy

In 2016, Barbara LaWall, then the elected prosecutor of Pima County (Tucson), published an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star…

March 23, 2022

Baltimore Prosecutors Have Been Inflating Charges for Black Defendants

Black residents are greatly overrepresented in arrests and court cases in the city of Baltimore, details a report by researchers…

March 22, 2022

We Know Visitors Aren’t the Ones Bringing Drugs Into Our Prison

The Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated since 2016 has long maintained that the supply of contraband drugs here…

March 22, 2022

Brittney Griner: US Steps Up Pressure Over Cannabis Detention in Russia

Weeks after it was disclosed that American professional basketball player Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia over alleged possession of…

March 21, 2022

Oklahoma Death Penalty Case Flags Inadequate Defense Funding

Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin did not want to release the dashcam video of two officers getting shot by David…

March 17, 2022

Executions for Drug Convictions Surged in 2021. Most Are Kept Secret.

At least 131 people were executed for drug convictions in 2021, according to a new report from Harm Reduction International…

March 15, 2022

Federal Life Sentences for Drugs: Unconscionable and Massively Biased

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road dark-web marketplace, was given a federal life sentence in 2015. But…

March 9, 2022