Thor Benson / TruthdigMay 13, 2016
In most states, people's firsthand experience of the criminal justice system can’t be part of the political debate on how to reform it. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigApr 23, 2016
A World Prison Brief study released earlier this year found that the number of people held in detention centers worldwide may exceed 11 million. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By John Kiriakou / OtherWordsApr 1, 2016
Inmates on their deathbeds should be free to spend their final days with their loved ones. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 25, 2016
A courageous Black Lives Matter activist named Ashley Williams interrupted a private fundraiser by Hillary Clinton in Charleston, S.C., to ask why the Democratic presidential candidate called black children "superpredators" in a speech she gave during her husband's presidential administration. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 10, 2016
“It seems that we—black people—are her winning card,” writes Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” at The Nation. “And it seems we’re eager to get played. Again.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 12, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called on Americans to help him undo the laws that let private interests profit off the mass incarceration of Americans and migrants. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 7, 2015
In a move that will hopefully lead to further concrete steps to target America's mass incarceration problem, the U.S. Justice Department is getting ready to release some 6,000 inmates from federal prisons, according to The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigSep 29, 2015
Mothers of young men murdered by police in Orange County, Calif., testify to the systematic destruction of families and society that such shootings cause. And by extension they indict the capitalist evil that consciously holds the poor like animals in squalid pens. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigAug 21, 2015
The question Vice President Joe Biden and his strategists are currently considering is this: Should he run? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJun 25, 2015
Though it's questionable why Columbia University decided to buy more than 230,000 shares of the biggest private prison company in the U.S. in the first place, on Monday it announced it not only gave up those shares but that it will no longer invest in such businesses. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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