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A clearinghouse for information, analysis, and resources related to state sanctioned violence in the United States
The War on Crime
Jump down to read about: Arrest — Bail — Civil Forfeiture — Community Policing — Criminalization of Poverty — General Commentary — Ideas for Reform — Mass Incarceration — Militarization — Monitoring & Supervision — Police Brutality — Police Unions — Policing and Technology — Prison Conditions — Prison Labor — Prisoner Resistance — Re-Entry — Solitary Confinement — Trial & Sentencing
See also the War on Drugs — Police Brutality Apps — The Ferguson Effect
Prisoners of a Hard Life by Susan Wilmarth, The Real Cost of Prisons Project
Arresting Justice: A Report About Juvenile Arrests in Chicago, 2009 & 2010, First Defense Legal Aid and Project NIA
Being Arrested is Nearly Twice as Deadly for African Americans as for Whites, Five Thirty Eight, July 23rd, 2015
Beaten Up, Arrested, Jailed: Witnesses of Police Misconduct Often Face Intimidation, The Root, July 11th, 2015
It Takes a Lot of Stop and Frisks to Find One Gun, Leah Libresco in FiveThirtyEight, June 3rd 2015
I’m a Black ex-cop and this is the truth about racist policing, Black Agenda Report, June 2nd, 2015
Class Action Lawsuit, Blaming Police Quotas, Takes on Criminal Summonses, The New York Times, May 18th, 2015
Federal Lawsuit Seeks to End Money Bail in SF, San Francisco Public Defender, October 29th, 2015 (archived)
New research finds wide racial variation in cash bail in Massachusetts, MassInc, September 28th, 2015
A Night in Brooklyn Criminal Court, New York Times Magazine, August 13th, 2015
The Bail Trap, The New York Times, August 13th, 2015
People Who Should Be Released from Jail are Dying There Instead, Fusion, July 29th, 2015 (archived)
Why Was Sandra Bland Still in Jail? She Couldn’t Pay Her Bail, Slate, July 23rd, 2015
Is Bail Unconstitutional? Slate, June 30th, 2015
When Bail is Out of Defendants’ Reach by Shaila Dewan for the New York Times, June 10th, 2015.
Pay to play: How Michigan makes it hard to fight for property seized by the police, MLIVE, November 12th, 2015
Forfeiture package sails through MI legislature, requiring police to disclose profits, MLIVE, October 7th, 2015
Police Shootings Won’t Stop Unless We Also Stop Shaking Down Black People, Mother Jones, September, 2015
How New Mexico is stopping cops from seizing money without a conviction, Al-Jazeera America, July 28th, 2015
Community Policing & ‘Broken Windows’ Policing
US Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
Land of the Free? Innocent Black Men Are Funneled Into Prison Through ‘Quality-of-Life’ Crimes and Tortured Confessions, The Atlanta Black Star, November 12th, 2015 (archived)
The cost of ‘quality of life’ policing: thousands of young black men coerced to plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit, The Washington Post, November 11th, 2015
Community Policing is Not the Answer, We Charge Genocide (press release), October 28th, 2015 (archived)
Police Diversity or Community Control? Huffington Post, July 13th, 2015 (archived)
How ‘broken windows policing’ continues to shatter black lives, The Grio, July 10th, 2015
Enough broken windows policing. We need a community-oriented approach. The Guardian, June 29th, 2015
DOJ Shouldn’t Wait for the Next Crisis in Policing, Huffington Post, June 18th, 2015 (see also Cleveland)
‘Broken Windows’ Policing Does Work, The National Review, June 8th, 2015
These cops are tired of white people getting freaked out by their black neighbors, Washington Post, May 6th, 2015
With Baltimore Unrest, More Debate Over ‘Broken Windows’ Policing, WNPR (NPR-Connecticut), May 4th, 2015
How Broken Windows Policing Puts Fewer Men in Prison, Time Magazine, December 17th, 2014
Criminalization of Poverty (see also Bail & Broken Windows Policing)
Poverty is Not a Crime (organization)
US inmates charged per night in jail, BBC News, November 9th, 2015
Pay up or go to jail: how a Mississippi town resurrected the debtors’ prison, The Guardian, October 21st, 2015
For Offenders Who Can’t Pay, It’s a Pint of Blood or Jail Time, The New York Times, October 19th, 2015
How to Fight Modern-Day Debtor’s Prisons? Sue the Courts, The Marshall Project, October 1st, 2015
Welcome to the Courtroom That is Every Renter’s Nightmare, Next City, September 14th, 2015
It’s unconstitutional to ban the homeless from sleeping outside, federal government says, The Washington Post, August 13th, 2015
Criminalizing Poverty, Huffington Post, May 8th, 2015
Why ‘Quality of Life Offenses’ Must Remain Crimes, New York Post, April 27th, 2015
Criminalizing Poverty: A Toxic and Growing Phenomenon, Buzzflash, March 30th, 2015
The Poor Get Prison, Institute for Policy Studies, March 18th, 2015
The Criminalization of Poverty, Washington Post, May 23rd, 2014
The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence, The Nation, March 14th, 2014
“Quality of Life Policing” – handout from INCITE/Women of Color Against Violence (PDF: Quality of Life Policing)
The Real Cost of Prisons Project (organization)
When a Prison Closes What Happens to the Prison Town? Christian Science Monitor, January 1st, 2016
White police are killing black kids, Salon, December 30th, 2015
Meet Jay Via: One bad cop, in one county, who did a whole lot of damage, Washington Post, December 11th, 2015
Texas troopers caught skewing racial profiling data by labeling Hispanics and blacks as white, Raw Story, November 10th, 2015
Safety and Justice Complement Each Other, New York Times op-ed, October 29th, 2015
Photographer Wants to Open Your Eyes to the Brutal Realities of the Prison-Industrial Complex, Huffington Post, September 3rd, 2015
The Collateral Victims of Criminal Justice, The New York Times, May 4th, 2015
The Thin Blue Line is a Burning Fuse: Why Every Struggle is Now a Struggle Against the Police, The Hampton Institute, August 19th, 2015
Human Rights Report: US is Violating Judicial Rights and Not Punishing Torture, News Everyday, August 17th, 2015
Could Black People in the U.S. Qualify as Refugees? Washington Post, August 14th, 2015
More Police Killed in States with Higher Levels of Gun Ownership, Mother Jones, August 14th, 2015
The Videos that are Putting Race and Policing into Sharp Relief, New York Times, July 30th, 2015
Last Man Standing (profile of Bill Otis, opponent of criminal justice reform), Slate, July 29th, 2015
Police Aren’t Superheroes and Black Men Aren’t Villains; This Isn’t a Comic Book, The Guardian, July 27th, 2015
The System Isn’t Broken, It Was Designed That Way: A Critical Analysis of Historical Racial Disadvantage in the Criminal Justice System, The Hampton Institute, July 25th, 2015 (archived)
Understanding the Human Cost of Imprisonment, Lacino Hamilton for Truth Out, June 23rd, 2015
Black Man vs. White Man Open Carry an AR-15 in Oregon – See the results! TJ Sotomayor Youtube channel, May 17th, 2015
What Caused the Crime Decline? Brennan Center for Justice, February 12th, 2015
Investigation of 5 cities finds body cameras usually help police, December 7th, 2015
Germany’s Humane Prison System, USA Today, November 4th, 2015
‘Law Enforcement Leaders’ Convene to Stop Mass Incarceration, The Atlanta Black Star, October 23rd, 2015
How to Build Trust in Policing: Measure what Matters, The Marshall Project, October 23rd, 2015
‘We’re arresting the wrong people’: top cops talk the talk on reform, The Root, October 22nd, 2015
Campaign Zero: A Blueprint for Ending Police Violence, San Diego Free Press, August 22nd, 2015
Prominent Ferguson protesters publish anti-police violence policy platform, St. Louis Today, August 21st, 2015
Prison Education Reduces Recidivism by Over 40% – Why Aren’t We Funding More of It? The Nation, August 17th, 2015
Cameras on cops still in demand a year after Ferguson, CNN-Money, August 7th, 2015
Helping Inmates Pay for College Could Dramatically Reduce Incarceration, Five Thirty Eight, July 31st, 2015
For true penal reform, focus on the violent offenders, Washington Post, July 26th, 2015
Let’s consider leniency for ‘violent’ offenders, too, Los Angeles Times, July 24th, 2015
State Lawmaker Wants to Eliminate ‘Toxic Cops’ Shuffling Between Departments, CBS-Denver, July 6th, 2015
Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Jails: Recommendations for Local Practice, The Brennan Center for Justice, June 25th, 2015
Police Brutality Bill Clears Senate, The Republican American, June 2nd, 2015
Too Many People in Jail? Abolish Bail by Maya Schenwar op-ed in New York Times, May 8th, 2015
Obama’s Police Reforms Ignore the Most Important Cause of Police Misconduct, Alex Vitale, The Nation, March 6th, 2015
One State is Dealing with Police Brutality in a Way that Everyone Should Follow, Matt Essert for Mic, December 14th, 2014
Prison Map – photo-documentary site shows overhead images of prisons in the U.S. the site’s creator asks, “what does the geography of incarceration in the United States look like?”
Study: Smaller counties driving US jail population growth, Associated Press, December 15th, 2015
Everyday Life in Incarceration Nation (photo essay), Narrative.ly, August, 2015
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie, Prison Policy Initiative, December 2015 (see also coverage from the Huffington Post)
Was a prison built every 10 days to house a fast-growing population of nonviolent inmates? Tampa Bay Times Polit-Fact.com, July 31st, 2015
Beyond Innocence: U.S. Political Prisoners and the Fight Against Mass Incarceration, Dan Berger, TruthOut, July 24th, 2015
In America, mass incarceration has caused more crime than it’s prevented, Quartz, July 22nd, 2015
How Mass Incarceration is Damaging Kids, Take Part, July 15th, 2015
Columbia is first U.S. university to divest from prisons, CNN, June 23rd, 2015 — see also The Columbia Spectator, June 22nd
California’s Prop 47 Reduces Sentences but Won’t End Mass Incarceration, Adam Hudson for TruthOut, June 18th, 2015
40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons are Full of Black and Poor People, Bill Quigley for Black Agenda Report, June 2nd, 2015
Sixteen States Have More People in Prison Cells than in College Dorms, The Grio, March 30th, 2015
Cruel, Unusual, and Crowded: will Brown v. Plata bring mass incarceration to an end? – Sara Mayeaux for Reason, March 2015
This is How Black Girls End up in the School to Prison Pipeline, Dani McClain for The Nation, February 5th, 2015
Stop Fearing our Children: Why Juvenile Incarceration Has Got to Go by Maya Schenwar, in TruthOut, August 14th, 2014
The Changing Racial Dynamics of Women’s Incarceration – Marc Mauer for The Sentencing Project, February 2013
States of Incarceration: The Global Context, Prison Policy Initiative, undated (archived)
Police Militarization – issue page from Million Hoodies movement for justice
NYPD Unit to Receive Automatic Rifles, UPI, January 1st, 2016
The Most Militarized Universities in America, Vice News, November 6th, 2015
Counterterrorism funds and tools are seeping into local policing, Equal Future, August 26, 2015
In Iraq I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me. Washington Post, July 24th, 2015
National Guard Seeks More Drones for Domestic Missions, Community Radio for Northern Colorado, July 23rd, 2015
Campus Cops Are Shadowy, Militarized, and More Powerful than Ever, Washington Post, July 9th, 2015
New SWAT Documents Give Picture of Ugly Militarization of U.S. Police, The Intercept, July 7th, 2015 – see documents released by the ACLU
Dr. Ben Carson Urges More Social Interaction, Less Militarization for Police Reforms, WBAL-TV 11, June 30th, 2015
Tanks for Nothing: Why Obama’s Plan to Demilitarize Police May be Dead in the Water, Newsweek, June 9th, 2015
War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing, ACLU, June 2014 – download the full report here
Obama to Limit Police Acquisition of Some Military-Style Equipment, NPR, May 18th, 2015
Obama administration bans some military-style assault gear from local police departments, Washington Post, May 18th, 2015
Obama sets new limits on police use of military equipment, Reuters, May 18th, 2015
Counterpoint: Militarization is Not What Ails Ferguson, Go Up State, August 24th, 2014
A Prison Sentence Should Stop After Prison, The Daily Beacon (Utah), November 11th, 2015
Immigrants object to growing use of ankle monitors after detention, Los Angeles Times, August 2nd, 2015
Probation May Sound Light, but Punishments Can Land Hard, New York Times, August 2nd, 2015
You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What? New York Times, July 16th, 2015
The Prison Doors Open and You’re Released. Now What? Nicole Flatow, June 21st, 2015
Nationwide Crime Spike has Law Enforcement Retooling Their Approach, NPR, July 1st, 2015
See also: Efforts to Document
Silence on U.S. police violence rooted in white supremacy, Tasnim News Agency, December 23rd, 2015
The County: the story of America’s deadliest police, The Guardian, December 1st, 2015
Rapists in Blue: Sexual Assault by Police, CounterPunch, November 12th, 2015
Sotomayor rips Supreme Court for letting cops get away with a ‘shoot first, think later’ approach to violence, Raw Story, November 9th, 2015
Supreme Court sides with police; officers using deadly force in chases granted more immunity, LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) Affairs, November 9th, 2015
Bolts from the blue, The Guardian, November 5th, 2015 (examines police use of tasers)
Report Says Half of Black Millennials Know a Victim of Police Abuse, Atlanta Black Star, November 4th, 2015
When Cops Kills, the Terrorists Win, African American Intellectual History Society, October 28th, 2015 (archived)
Artists Against Police Brutality: A Comic Book Anthology – published October 28th, 2015
Is Police Misconduct a Secret in Your State? WNYC News, October 15th, 2015 (archived)
Loretta Lynch: Government Shouldn’t Require Reports of People Killed by Police, The Guardian, October 2nd, 2015
Batman Comic Tackles Police Brutality, Gentrification, The Root, September 16th, 2015
One Year Later, #LastWords Continues to Pay Tribute to Police Brutality Victims, Huffington Post, August 18th, 2015
Podcast: We Still Rely on Volunteers to Tally the Victims of Police Violence, Five Thirty Eight, August 13th, 2015
Michael Brown and “Judge Dredd” System Exemplify America’s Police Brutality Issue, Huffington Post, August 11th, 2015
Data on Use of Force by Police in U.S. Proves Almost Useless, New York Times, August 11th, 2015
Police brutality the topic at national black officials conference, Sun-Sentinel, August 10th, 2015
Ice Cube Sets the Record Straight on ‘Compton,’ Police Brutality, and Suge Knight, The Daily Beast, August 8th, 2015
Tracking Police Violence: A Year After Ferguson, Five Thirty Eight, August 7th, 2015
Body Cams Can Capture Abuse, but Can They End Police Brutality? Alternet, August 3rd, 2015
Training Officers to Shoot First, and He Will Answer Questions Later, New York Times, August 1st, 2015
Police brutality: How UK cops disarmed a knife attacker and why it stirred debate over US practices, RT.com, August 1st, 2015
Police brutality is a problem for everyone, Baltimore Sun, July 30th, 2015
Police brutality and Christian pacifist silence, Mennonite World Review, July 29th, 2015
When Cops Get Caught Sanitizing or Flat-Out Lying About Brutality, Huffington Post, July 28th, 2015 (archived)
“Reasons,” Bruce Plante, Tulsa World
America’s Violent Police, Stabroek News, July 25th, 2015
Police Brutality Cases Shape Agenda of National Bar Association, the National Law Journal, July 20th, 2015
Gangs of the State: Police and the Hierarchy of Violence, The Hampton Institute in Truth Out, July 19th, 2015
Why Do I Feel So Vulnerable? Thoughts on Police Brutality Against Black Women, Huffington Post, July 17th, 2015
Why Don’t Settlements Over Police Brutality Come Out of Police Budgets? The American Prospect, July 15th, 2015
Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict, Journalist’s Resource, July 1st, 2015
Prosecutors’ union inadvertently demonstrates why local prosecutors shouldn’t investigate police shootings, Radley Balko for the Washington Post, June 23rd, 2015
Police Killed More Americans in 2014 Than All U.S. Mass Shootings Combined, Mint Press News, June 23rd, 2015
After Freddie Gray: The Kingsley Decision Creates a Crucial New Constitutional Protection Against Police Abuse, Salon, June 22nd, 2015
What Causes Police Brutality? Vanity Fair, June/July, 2015
Poll: Confidence in Police is at a 22-year low, Except with Conservatives and Republicans, John Walker for Fusion, June 19th, 2015
Black Americans are Killed at 12 Times the Rate of People in Other Developed Countries, Nate Silver FiveThirtyEight, June 18th, 2015
All 50 U.S. States Fail to Meet Global Police Use of Force Standards, Laughland and Lartey for The Guardian, June 18th, 2015
Texas Pool Party Video Tells African Americans They Are Intruders in Suburbia, Rose Hackman for The Guardian, June 9th, 2015
Didn’t McKinney police officer know he was being recorded? – Washington Post, June 8th, 2015
The enemy is the state: how the US justice system started a Civil War, Sergio De La Pava for The Guardian, June 5th, 2015
The U.S. government could count those killed by police, but it chooses not to, The Guardian, June 3rd, 2015
Beating Shows Cost of Police Brutality, op-ed from Detroit Free Press, June 3rd, 2015. Discusses resolution of lawsuit over the beating of Floyd Dent in Michigan.
Mass Protests Trigger Washington Post Study of Police Killings, Marsha Cole for Black Agenda Report, June 3rd, 2015 — see also update on June 9th
Exploring what it means when police refuse to provide medical attention to their victims, Daily Kos, June 2nd, 2015
Striking Image Flips Narrative of Black Women and Police Brutality, Lily Workneh discusses artwork by Markus Prime
117 Nations Slam American Police Brutality at UN Human Rights Council, Mint Press News, May 13th, 2015
U.S. Cited for Police Violence, Racism, in Scathing U.N. Review on Human Rights – Natasja Sheriff for Al-Jazeera America, May 11th, 2015
When Violence and Lawlessness are Acceptable, Washington Post (op-ed), May 4th, 2015
Police Killings Almost Never Lead to Murder Charges, Carl Bialik for FiveThirtyEight, May 1st, 2015
When can police use lethal force against a fleeing suspect? PBS Newshour, April 8th, 2015
Tony Robinson, Ruben Garcia, and Police Brutality Against Brown Bodies, A.B. Wilkinson for the Huffington Post, March 17th, 2015
What We Lose When Police Blame Victims, by Julia Craven and Nick King for the Huffington Post
Deep Roots Underlie the Police Brutality Problem by Kevin Gross and Rachel Hinton. The DePaulia
The Real Problem when Police Use Lethal Force, Governing.com, December 15th, 2014
Extrajudicial Killings Show Grand Jury Reform Long Overdue, Rep. Hank Johnson for Huffington Post, December 10th, 2014
How cops can help citizens better understand police use of force, Police One, September 3rd, 2015
When should police use deadly force? PBS NewsHour, August 22nd, 2014
States of Exception: Police Violence Redux, Devon Pena in MexMigration, August 15th, 2014
Emerging Use of Force Issues: Balancing Public and Officer Safety, report from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (COPS), March 2012
Coverage of Police Brutality by Democracy Now
Cop charged with the murder of Laquan McDonald walks out of jail thanks to police fundraising, Jezebel, December 1st, 2015
There is no war on cops: Police threats against Tarantino are unacceptable, Salon, November 12th, 2015
U.S. cops and their unions are out of control, The Japan Times, November 12th, 2015
How Police Unions are Using Protests, Boycotts, and Shady Tactics to Fight Reform, Vice, November 5th, 2015
Nassau County Police Union Joins Call for Boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s New Film; Tarantino Defends Remarks, CBS New York, November 4th, 2015
Is Campaign Cash from Police Unions Watering Down Democrats’ Reform Efforts? Truth-Out, October 14th, 2015
Is Black Lives Matter Protecting Police Unions? USA Today, September 17th, 2015
NYPD Union President: Non-Cops “Are Not Qualified” to Judge the Actions of Police, Gawker, September 15th, 2015
FOP seeks donations for officers in ‘extremely lengthy’ Freddie Gray case, The Baltimore Sun, September 14th, 2015
Baltimore FOP Tries to Distance Itself from Offensive Fundraiser T-Shirt, Think Progress, September 8th, 2015
Black Labor Organizers Urge AFL-CIO to Re-examine Its Ties to Police, Truth-Out, August 13th, 2015
Resist Police Unions’ Demands to Let Officers Review Video After Shooting Incident, Duluth News-Tribune, July 5th, 2015
DC Police Union Chairman: ‘Ferguson Effect’ Partly to Blame for Violent Weekend, MyFoxDC, June 8th, 2015
The Increasing Isolation of America’s Police, The Washington Post, May 11th, 2015
The Secret Weapon for America’s Beleaguered Police (profiles Jim Pasco, head of the national Fraternal Order of Police), Politico, May 9th, 2015
Baltimore Activists Recount How Police Unions Crushed Accountability Reforms, The Intercept, May 1st, 2015
Let Body Camera Experiment Proceed, Press Enterprise, March 24th, 2015
Police Union President Blames Protesters for Deaths of Two New York City Officers, Think Progress, December 20th, 2014
Policing and Technology (see also Efforts to Document)
It’s Your Right to Film the Police!
YouTube discussion of Police Brutality Apps
Role of Cell Phones in Exposing Police Brutality
Drones and Lethal Robotics: The Future of the Police War on Black Lives, TruthOut, December 23rd, 2015
How to Predict Bad Cops in Chicago, FiveThirtyEight, December 15th, 2015
‘Minority Report’ is Real – And it’s mostly reporting minorities, Mic.Com, November 9th, 2015
Keep calm and hit record: mobile apps help little brother watch Big Brother, Naked Security, November 4th, 2015
Police Killings of Blacks: Here is What the Data Say, New York Times, October 16th, 2015
Eric Garner and Tamir Rice among those missing from FBI record of police killings, October 15th, 2015
Chicago Activists Launch Police Misconduct Database, Inverse, October 2nd, 2015
Car Dash Camera Helps Clear Up Accusation of Police Brutality, Mediaite, August 1st, 2015
Can This Software Prevent Police Brutality?, International Business Times, July 30th, 2015
Can a BlackLivesMatter Twitter Bot Support Activism and Silence Trolls? The Guardian, July 22nd, 2015 – additional coverage from Mashable
Cops, Lies, and Body Cameras, Orchestrated Pulse, March 30th, 2015
Investigation of 5 cities finds body cameras usually help police, Fusion, December 7th, 2014
Does High-Tech Dragnet to Deport Immigrants Go Too Far? NBC News, February 28th, 2014
Soul Murder and the American Jail, Melanie Newport, December 13th, 2015
Serving Time in Overcrowded Prisons Makes Ex-Cons More Likely to Re-Offend, Slate, November 12th, 2015
One more reason the PIC is awful: the distance it puts between people, The Grist, October 22nd, 2015
Rikers Island Almost Never Reports Sexual Abuse Complaints, Huffington Post, October 20th, 2015
Peeling Back the Curtain on Prison Rape, Wyatt Evans radio show, August 16th, 2015
In the California Institute for Women, women are dropping like flies, Women in and Beyond the Global, August 2nd, 2015
Hot summer sparks controversy over prison conditions, KSAT-12/ABC, July 29th, 2015
2010 race riot far more serious than reported, Kingman Daily Miner, July 19th, 2015
On the Draft: How Prisoners Suffer Before and After Prison Transfers – TruthOut, July 14th, 2015
Does Barbaric Georgia Prison Cell Depict American Abu Ghraib? – Patrick Jonsson for the Christian Science Monitor, March 31st, 2015
‘Reckless Indifference’: Deadly Heat in Texas Prisons, University of Texas Law School Human Rights Clinic, March, 2015, PDF: 2015-HRC-USA-Reckless-Indifference-Report
Please Stop ‘Reforming’ Pelican Bay by Maya Schenwar in Prison Legal News, August 15th, 2013
We should demand prison-free products as adamantly as cage-free eggs, The Guardian, October 7th, 2015
America’s Slave Empire, Chris Hedges, TruthDig, June 21st, 2015
The Latest Evidence of How Private Prisons are Exploiting Inmates for Profit, Gabrielle Canon for Mother Jones, June 17th, 2015
ACLU investigates 5 for-profit prisons in Texas, KSAT-12/ABC, June 10th, 2015
Getting the Money Out of Prison Reform, Dan Berger for Truthout, May 28th, 2015
Pay to Stay – by Dara Lind for Vox.com, May 26th, 2015; discusses phenomenon of jails and prisons charging inmates for the cost of incarceration. Related reports available from the Brennan Center for Justice as part of their Criminal Justice Debt project.
How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about, Michael Cohen, the Washington Post, April 28th, 2015
12 Mainstream Corporations Benefiting from the Prison Industrial Complex, Atlanta Black Star, October 10th, 2014
The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business, or a New Form of Slavery? Centre for Research on Globalization, March 31st, 2014
Visiting a Modern-Day Slave Plantation, TruthOut, February 22nd, 2010
Slavery Haunts America’s Plantation Prisons by Maya Schenwar in TruthOut, August 28th, 2008
Prisoner Resistance and Activism
100+ Women Now Refusing to Eat in Texas Immigration Detention Center, Colorlines, November 9th, 2015
Prisoners’ Families Organize to Resist Incarceration and its Costs, TruthOut, October 18th, 2015 (archived)
The inmate who exposed Florida prisons’ culture of cruelty, Miami Herald, August 8th, 2015
Maximum-security prisoners in Utah are on a hunger strike over prison conditions, Fusion, August 5th, 2015
Nearly 1000 inmates moved from prison after unrest, KSAT-12/ABC, February 24th, 2015 (archived)
Can DIY Flipbooks Become the YouTube of Prison? Narratively, not dated
A Criminal Record and College, New York Times (op-ed), November 25th, 2015
John Oliver blasts our $80 billion prison and parole system that is setting ex-cons up to fail, Raw Story, November 9th, 2015
Freedom, Finally, After a Life in Prison, New York Times, August 21st, 2015
We Talked to One of the 46 Inmates Barack Obama Released from Prison, Vice.com, July 21st, 2015
You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What? New York Times, July 16th, 2015
The Prison Doors Open and You’re Released. Now What? Nicole Flatow, June 21st, 2015
Cookie Lyon of Fox’s ‘Empire,’ Sheds Rare Light on Black Women’s Incarceration and Re-entry, Huffington Post, March 27th, 2015
Instead of Protecting Incarcerated LGBTQ People from Violence, Prisons Put Them in Solitary, Bitch Media, November 2nd, 2015
A Play That Confronts the Horror of Solitary Confinement, The New Yorker, October 19th, 2015
#Abolish Solitary – social media campaign from Critical Resistance, July-August, 2015
Obama, in Criminal Justice Speech, Denounces Over-Use of Solitary Confinement, Solitary Watch, July 14th, 2015
Solitary Confinement Makes Teenagers Depressed and Suicidal, Ian Kysel for Washington Post (op-ed), June 17th, 2015
Activists Bring Solitary Confinement to College Campus for Alvaro Luna Hernandez, Mintpress News, June 15th, 2015
60 Days in Solitary Confinement at a Women’s Prison (video), AJ+, June 10th, 2015
The Disturbing Sounds of Solitary Confinement, PBS Frontline, April 21st, 2014
The Injustice of the Plea Bargain System, The Wall Street Journal, December 3rd, 2015
Crime lab scandals just keep getting worse, Slate, October 29th, 2015
Should Prison Sentences Be Based on Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet? FiveThirtyEight blog, August 4th, 2015
Life Without Parole, The Marshall Project, July 10th, 2015
Ruling Against ‘Three Strikes’ Opens Door for Reform, TruthOut, June 30th, 2015
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