State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...

He remembers it as easy money: “There were a lot of people who wanted drugs in East Oakland and South ... prison population fell by only 12 percent.) Prison is deeply rooted in the American ...

The US detention facility on the coast of Cuba was set up in 2002 to detain terrorism suspects following the 9/11 attacks.

The West Coast felt much too exposed, and its Japanese population, native-born ... It was another iteration of the American racist “one drop” rule, that one drop of Black blood made you ...

On January 20, President Trump signed the executive order “Protecting the American People Against Invasion ... It eventually evolved into the system of prison farms, where prisoners ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Women represent half of the U.S. population but it’s still rare for them to have leading roles in ...

President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half ...

Bukele suspended key constitutional rights in 2022 and arrested 84,000 people, more than 1% of the country’s population. The majority of them remain in prison ... of many American right-wing ...