Trump Is Trying to Find a Legal Way to Lock Up Even More Immigrant Families
Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center in 2014.Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s still widespread uncertainty about how exactly the executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday will change his policy of separating and detaining immigrant families. But one…
Nevada Is Trying a New Drug to Execute Inmates and Has No Idea How It Will Work
Hailshadow/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scott Dozier is scheduled to be executed on July 11. In 2016, when the 47-year-old inmate first asked to skip his appeals and be put to death, Nevada didn’t have any execution drugs on hand. But last August, the state announced that it would…
Understaffed Federal Prison Is Taking in 1,000 Noncriminal Immigrants, and Even the Guards Are Protesting
Homeland Security buses enter the federal correctional complex in Victorville, California.James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, as the first busloads of immigrants rolled up to the federal prison complex in Victorville, California, the facilities there went on lockdown. The Victorville complex, in an…
The Era of Mass Incarceration Isn’t Over. This New Report Shows Why.
IPGGutenbergUKLtd/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since the US incarceration rate started to level off at the turn of the century, activists and criminal justice reform advocates have been hopeful that the era of mass incarceration may finally be over. Indeed, the number of people locked up in prisons across the…
Americans Are Starting to Like the Death Penalty Again
Chuck Berman/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the last two decades, public support for the death penalty has been on the decline. In 2016, the number of people in favor of capital punishment was 49 percent—the lowest it had been in more than 40 years. But a new Pew…
For Black Lives Activists, Engaging in Trump’s Pardon Politics Feels Like a Deal With the Devil
Trump granted clemency to Alice Marie Johnson (left, with daughter) after hearing a personal plea from Kim Kardashian West. Adrian Sainz Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last Wednesday, Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who served more than 20 years of a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense,…