Over the past year, hundreds of thousands of college students across the country banded together to demand an end to the U.S.-backed attacks on Gaza, which have killed tens of thousands of ...

The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the state can simultaneously enforce two separate abortion bans—one from 2022 that criminalizes abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and another from ...

Private jail medical contractors have made a business out of avoiding consequences for civil rights violations. They offer local governments inexpensive, substandard medical care for their jails and ...

State Senator Julia Salazar argues in a Q&A that policing reforms “have failed” and that funds should be reinvested into other services; she also lays out bills she is supporting to improve ...

On May 8, a group of prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary refused to perform the field labor they are compelled to do for virtually no pay. The prison, commonly known as Angola, stands on the ...

In the summer of 1984, a man broke into the Burlington, North Carolina, apartment of 22-year-old Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and raped her at knifepoint. Police met her at the hospital that same night, ...

On August 18 last year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference in a Fort Lauderdale courthouse to announce his latest achievement: arresting 20 formerly incarcerated people for voting ...

LEYDEN — Nestled into the eastern foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, the hamlet of Leyden is one of the tiniest towns in Massachusetts. With a population of 734, it is one of the few Massachusetts ...

All around us, authorities work to steal our life force. I won’t let them take it in the time I have left. How did my prison doctor miss a tumor the size of a doll’s head on my ultrasound? Why did I ...

Lori Lightfoot has had several chances to hold the Chicago Police Department accountable for its actions. She had a chance in 2002, when she was the chief of the city’s Office of Professional ...

On Jan. 9, Mia Davis, a 36-year-old Black woman from Tampa, stood in the courtroom of Nick Nazaretian, a judge in Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit. Her husband Ray sat in the gallery of the Division K ...