Jails and Prisons

Protesters, activists, and local politicians gather in Lower Manhattan to denounce the arrest yesterday of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for allegedly trespassing at an ICE facility in New Jersey.

Mayor Ras Baraka Talks to “The Nation” Mayor Ras Baraka Talks to “The Nation”

On his arrest, the private prison company GEO, and why he believes we’re heading into authoritarianism—but democracy will prevail.

May 13, 2025 / Anthony Conwright

Cruelty Is the Point

Cruelty Is the Point Cruelty Is the Point

Trump’s deportations and defundings = death.

May 6, 2025 / OppArt / Anonymous (NYC)

A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss Abrego Garcia's arrest and deportation d at Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2025,

War on Terror Brain Rot Brought Us to This Point War on Terror Brain Rot Brought Us to This Point

After years of security theater, all too many Americans seem ready to accept Trump’s pledge to root out the vermin.

May 2, 2025 / Rebecca Gordon

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, January 26, 2025.

Why I Had to Flee the United States Why I Had to Flee the United States

I was a political prisoner in Egypt. I didn’t want to become one again in America.

May 2, 2025 / Abdelrahman ElGendy

Governor Kathy Hochul is joined by state troopers during a news briefing on state crime statistics on October 17, 2024, in Albany.

The New York State Police Are Feeding ICE a Gang Database The New York State Police Are Feeding ICE a Gang Database

For 20 years, the state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members—and they’re feeding it to Donald Trump’s administration.

Apr 23, 2025 / Chris Gelardi

Pam Bondi, US attorney general, and Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, during a press conference at Port Everglades on April 9, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

If Trump Sounds Like He Wants a Police State, That’s Because He Does If Trump Sounds Like He Wants a Police State, That’s Because He Does

And so do all of his cronies.

Apr 18, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

President George W. Bush speaks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, in 2007.

Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror

The antidemocratic policies put in place after 9/11 have come home to roost.

Apr 1, 2025 / Karen J. Greenberg

The new FIFA Club World Cup trophy during a swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office on March 28, 2025.

With ICE Out of Control, How Can the US Cohost the 2026 World Cup? With ICE Out of Control, How Can the US Cohost the 2026 World Cup?

The country has proven itself incapable of not abducting and imprisoning people entering it—boycotting US matches avoids putting teams, their families, and fans in danger.

Mar 31, 2025 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin

Alireza Doroudi on the University of Alabama’s campus.

Alabama Won’t Say Alireza Doroudi’s Name. We Must. Alabama Won’t Say Alireza Doroudi’s Name. We Must.

The Iranian PhD student is one of several abducted by ICE in the past month—a pattern we cannot become numb to.

Mar 28, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ICE.

What Will You Do? What Will You Do?

What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

Mar 28, 2025 / Kaveh Akbar

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