Subjects Archives: Incarceration

Soon after the court granted him bail, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) which is handling the case sought a stay on the order to be able to appeal against it before the Supreme Court. The Bombay high court rejected it.

To speak of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) is to speak of a life lived in courageous chapters.

The new federal report indicates abuse of power by a senior Swiss official with financial ties to Israel.

Duncan’s election is significant because he has sharply raised the problems of racism and police repression at a time when the Trump regime and servile state governments are attempting to stop any discussion of the real history of this country and racist oppression happening right now.

Cellmates use cellphones to uncover ‘America’s deadliest prison system.’

Ultimately, the path to liberation necessitates a fundamental shift in understanding the very concept of “crime” as a political construct engineered to subdue resistance and legitimize state violence.

Trump has commandeered Washington, DC, putting National Guard and local police in the streets because DC is not a state, and so it’s the only place he could take over in this way. He’s brandishing a patently false pretense that the district is facing a crime crisis. The reality—and we do remember reality, right?—is that Washington, DC, has its lowest violent crime rate in 30 years.

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order—but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians.

From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.

Under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, the government is supposed to track how many people die in law enforcement custody—but the data is a mess.

Hasty rulings on cases in the Supreme Court’s growing ‘shadow docket’ have fundamentally altered United States governance.

A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative reveals how President Donald Trump’s administration is driving mass deportation by secretly using local jails—even in places with sanctuary policies—to detain immigrants.

This aggressive use of public lands and services, including the use of millions of dollars in FEMA funds, was carried out not in order to respond to the real needs of Floridians, but in order to wage war on immigrants in a purposefully theatrical and cruel way.

Once a crushing cost for families desperate to stay in touch with loved ones behind bars, phone calls will now be covered by the state.

Outrage over ICE raids rings hollow while 2 million languish in prisons. America has always had concentration camps. We just reserve our anger for the ones with TV cameras.

To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque.

Mondoweiss talks to political consultant Peter Feld to break down Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York City: “It’s proven that Zionism is a paper tiger in Democratic politics and that the emperor has no clothes.”

If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more.

Rallying under the banner “IAM Max,” 200 union members and supporters gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, on June 6 to demand the release of Maximo Londonio, a member of Machinists (IAM) Local Lodge 695 who has been imprisoned by ICE since mid-May.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a brilliant and empathetic revolutionary journalist known as “the Voice of the Voiceless,” hailed as a leader of people working for peace and justice.