Twenty-three thousand dead. That’s the latest estimate—and maybe a low one—of people killed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines drug war.…
Last week, Michael Johnson, a young black gay man, was released earlier than expected from Boonville Correctional Center in Missouri.…
Conservative district attorneys often seem like they are at one-on-one political war with their progressive challengers. But according to a…
On July 9, Michael Johnson, a Black gay man from Missouri, made headlines when he was released early after entering…
Listen to me, Tron. I need you to do what the police want you to do. You gotta say what…
On July 8, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed into law a bill creating a new criminal offense category that…
The 2019 competition for who gets to be Allegheny County, Pennsylvania’s elected District Attorney for the next four years is…
Tiffany Cabán, a highly progressive, 31-year-old queer Latina public defender, stunned the world last week when she edged out a…
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, published in 2010, probably did more than any other document to make mass incarceration…
Coinciding with Juneteenth, a day honoring the emancipation of enslaved peoples, Congress held the first hearing on reparations for Black…