Today It Locks Up Immigrants. But CoreCivic’s Roots Lie in the Brutal Past of America’s Prisons.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2015, I spent four months working undercover as a guard at a medium-security Louisiana prison run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) with the aim of reporting on the conditions inside a private prison for Mother Jones. Shortly after I began, I was shown…
Inside the Special Police Unit That’s Transforming How Cops Investigate Sexual Assault
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One day near the end of spring semester, a 22-year-old I’ll call Abbie stood in front of a roomful of cops and recounted what happened after she was raped by another student at her college. Standing very still behind a large podium, she described how…
How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, left, attends the 37th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service.Kevin Dietsch/Pool via CNP/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article was originally published by ProPublica. On a chilly morning in December 2016, 12-year-old Bobby Lewis found himself sitting in a little room at the police station…
White Supremacist Under Scrutiny for Robocalls Using Mollie Tibbetts’ Death to Spread Hate
A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business on August 21 in Brooklyn, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A neo-Nazi podcast host has come under scrutiny for a spate of racist robocalls in Iowa and Florida.…
A Chicago Cop Is Going on Trial for the “Execution” of Laquan McDonald. This Could Be Big.
OfficerJason Van Dyke in court in March 2016.Nancy Stone/Pool Chicago Tribune/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jury selection begins September 5 in the highly anticipated trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who stands accused of first-degree murder, among other charges, in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald,…
No One Knows How Big the Prison Strike Is, But Organizers Are Already Calling It a Success
LightFieldStudios/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For weeks, the outside organizers of the nationwide prison strike that kicked off last Tuesday had been spreading the word that inmates in at least 17 states had pledged to protest prison conditions over 19 days. The plan was for thousands of prisoners to…