The automated drone push comes as resistance to mass surveillance by license plate-reading cameras goes viral. Residents are packing city council meetings across the country to demand restrictions on ...
Lawyers are appealing to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had urged the release of Leonard Peltier.
A Georgia judge ordered a new trial for Danyel Smith, who was convicted of a crime that may have never occurred.
Thelma Jones is a Black woman who lives in Faribault, Minnesota. After five years in her home, Jones’s landlord informed her in 2016 that she and her children had two weeks to move out. The police had ...
Georgia is the strictest state in America when it comes to proving intellectual disability in capital cases. This month, the Supreme Court could save the life of a man who says he is mentally disabled ...
In 2014, 29-year-old Kristen Coutu of Rhode Island was found unresponsive in her car, dead from an overdose after using heroin laced with fentanyl. Aaron Andrade, the man who sold her the drugs, was ...
On June 17, 2004, three police officers were shot dead at a drug house on the west side of Birmingham, Alabama. It was a ghastly scene. Officer Charles Bennett lay on his back near the front door with ...
On Dec. 28, 2016, Tressie Shaffer woke up early for her morning shift at Wendy’s. She made a bottle for her youngest child, a 5-month-old, and gave it to her while the baby’s dad, Jason Scott, his two ...
In 1978, the Oscar-winning documentary “Scared Straight!” popularized the idea that the best way to prevent young people from incarceration is to scare them. The film focuses on a group of “juvenile ...
On Dec. 21, 2015, Molly, then 23 years old, climbed the fence of Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, where she had been incarcerated since 2013. (To protect Molly’s identity, only her ...
The Austin City Council has voted to make one of the most substantial cuts to a major city’s police budget since George Floyd’s death, which sparked calls across the country to defund police. In a ...
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