Elementary School Kids Don’t Belong in Handcuffs
By Mark Fancher Chrystal McCadden thought she had done everything necessary to ensure an appropriate, safe educational…
Texas Executed Despite Opposition from Victim’s Son
By Anna Arceneaux (Editor’s note: This article was written the week after Young’s July 17 execution) Fourteen…
Have Conservatives Hijacked The First Amendment?
By David Cole Have conservatives hijacked the First Amendment? Critics are increasingly making this claim, maintaining that…
Electric Scooters Are Racing to Collect Your Data
By Nomi Conway As scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime scramble to get scooters on the street,…
The Government Failed to Meet the Reunification Deadline
By Stacy Sullivan The Trump administration claimed in court filings Thursday evening that it had met the…
The Rush to Deport Reunited Families
By Amrit Cheng The family separation crisis took a turn yesterday, when the Trump administration revealed in…
Suit Documents Violations under Stop-and-Frisk
By Scott Michelman Late one September afternoon in 2017, on an ordinary residential street in a predominantly…
The Power of the Prosecutor: A Personal Account
By Ashley Sawyer Have you ever watched an episode of “Law & Order”? The creators do an amazing…
The Truth about Catch and Release
By Stacy Sullivan On April 6, 2018, President Trump issued an official memorandum with the following subject…
Bill Designed to Keep Innocent People out of Jail and Prevent Wrongful Convictions
Since 1989, experts estimate that nearly 200 people have been wrongly convicted in California. According to the…
Supreme Court’s Disingenuous Funeral Ceremony for Korematsu
By Carl Takei Over Independence Day weekend, I joined hundreds of fellow Japanese-Americans at the Tule Lake…
Stop-and-Frisk Settlement in Milwaukee Lawsuit Is a Wakeup Call for Police Nationwide
By Nusrat Choudhury In a banner day for police reform, the city of Milwaukee has entered into…
A Cop Yells at Kids and Draws His Gun
By Kali Cohn Over the past week, a Facebook video went viral, showing an El Paso police…
ICE put me in a hot van with no windows or water. I thought I would die.
By Floricel Liborio Ramos Sitting chained up in the back of a hot van last summer, I…
Court Rules Against Trump Administration’s Attack on California Sanctuary Cities
(From Press Release) – A federal court this week upheld the California Values Act, which ensures that…
America Was in the Business of Separating Families Long Before Trump
By Jeffery Robinson Children are crying for their parents while being held in small cages. The attorney…
Two Years after the Police Killing of Philando Castile, Justice Continues to Be Denied
By Teresa Nelson On July 7, 2016, the day after the shooting of Philando Castile, artists from…
The Family Separation Crisis Exposes America’s Addiction to Incarceration
By Somil Trivedi The continuing cruelty on display at our southern border has unleashed a righteous, primal…
MS-13 Beat Me Up, Threatened to Kill Me, Then the Government Took Away My Kids
By Jessika L. I crossed the border into the United States on March 13 in search of…
Innocent Students Are Getting Criminalizing Probation
By Sarah Hinger and Sylvia Torres-Guillén Children who have not committed a crime should never be treated…