California Is About to Abolish Cash Bail. Criminal Justice Advocates Aren’t Happy.
Wavebreakmedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Criminal justice activists have long said California’s bail system needs reforming. Earlier this year, a California appellate court agreed, declaring the state’s system unconstitutional and making change inevitable. Then last week, Democrats in the state Legislature passed a bill that would effectively abolish cash bail once and for all. …
Prisoners Are Getting Creative to Pull Off a Massive Strike This Week
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; incarceratedworkers.org Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One recent afternoon in a pizzeria in Oakland, California, Cole Dorsey pulls out an LG flip phone to explain how he’s helping organize a strike in the country’s harshest workplace. The phone is small and black, with a busted interior screen.…
Thanks to Trump’s Family Separations, Democrats Are in the Hot Seat for Taking Private Prison Cash
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a theater outside Miami last month, as a debate between four Democratic candidates for Florida governor approached the two-hour mark, 18-year-old activist ErrDaisha Floyd took the mic and turned the conversation toward a topic close to her heart: private prisons. The…
Nevada Is Hellbent on Using This Drug to Execute an Inmate—Even if the Manufacturer Objects
AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the state of Nevada filed a petition with the state Supreme Court asking the high court to throw out a decision made by a Clark County judge that halted the execution of Scott Dozier. The inmate was scheduled to be executed on…
ICE Detainee Dies in For-Profit Georgia Immigrant Detention Center
Suspected illegal border crossers at Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, in 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Immigration detention isn’t just costly—it’s deadly. Efrain De La Rosa, a 40-year-old Mexican national, was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center on July 10…
Nevada Is About to Kill an Inmate Using a Drug Mix That’s Never Been Tried Before
Hailshadow/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, 10:45 a.m.: Alvogen, the company from which Nevada obtained midazolam, filed a lawsuit against the state Tuesday afternoon*. The company is alleging that despite a clear warning that its product could not be used in executions, Nevada purchased the drugs by “subterfuge.” The…