Jails and Prisons

Democracy Spring 2016

Don’t Let Corporate Money Dominate the Midterms Don’t Let Corporate Money Dominate the Midterms

You can also organize in your community to demand that all separated immigrant families are reunited and freed from detention.

Jul 31, 2018 / no-paywall / NationAction

Prison labor Georgia

What Is Prison Abolition? What Is Prison Abolition?

The movement that is trying to think beyond prisons as a tool to solve society’s problems.

Jul 31, 2018 / John Washington

Inside a Security Housing Unit

‘As Long As Solitary Exists, They Will Find a Way to Use It’ ‘As Long As Solitary Exists, They Will Find a Way to Use It’

Five years after he helped launch the largest-ever prison hunger strike, Todd Ashker is back in isolation. And he’s not the only one.

Jul 13, 2018 / Victoria Law

RAICES Bond Check

What Can $20 Million Buy? Activists Attempt to Post Bond for 2,500 Parents in Immigration Detention What Can $20 Million Buy? Activists Attempt to Post Bond for 2,500 Parents in Immigration Detention

Detained mothers often have to pay the government $10,000 before being allowed to reunite with their children.

Jul 11, 2018 / Julianne Hing

Immigration protesters

Tell Microsoft and All Other Tech Companies to Break Ties with ICE Tell Microsoft and All Other Tech Companies to Break Ties with ICE

Over 100 Microsoft employees have already joined the campaign.

Jul 5, 2018 / no-paywall / NationAction

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From the Muslim Ban to Family Separation, Fight to End Attacks on Immigrants From the Muslim Ban to Family Separation, Fight to End Attacks on Immigrants

From speaking out to joining protests, take action to demand freedom for immigrants.

Jun 26, 2018 / no-paywall / NationAction

Immigrant children separated

Trump’s Border: Gitmo for Kids Trump’s Border: Gitmo for Kids

The Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility set the stage structurally, institutionally, and legally for what we’ve just witnessed at the border.

Jun 26, 2018 / Karen J. Greenberg

Want to Reduce the Number of People in Prison? Stop Sentencing So Many People to Prison.

Want to Reduce the Number of People in Prison? Stop Sentencing So Many People to Prison. Want to Reduce the Number of People in Prison? Stop Sentencing So Many People to Prison.

How sentencing reform could drastically reduce the number of people behind bars in California.

Jun 22, 2018 / Video / Scott Graves and Steven Bliss

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The Trump Administration Still Has No Plan to Reunite Families It Tore Apart The Trump Administration Still Has No Plan to Reunite Families It Tore Apart

The 2,300 children who have been taken from their parents face a tangled legal process and a shortage of lawyers to help them through it.

Jun 21, 2018 / Zoë Carpenter

Trump’s Executive Order Turns Family Separation Into Family Incarceration

Trump’s Executive Order Turns Family Separation Into Family Incarceration Trump’s Executive Order Turns Family Separation Into Family Incarceration

It also opens up military bases as detention centers and indicates an intention to reopen the Flores settlement.

Jun 20, 2018 / Julianne Hing

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