OAKLAND, CA - Barbara Lee has been announced as the next Mayor of Oakland, making Lee the city’s first-ever Black female ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review Lance Shockley’s death sentence in late March, despite misconduct ...

QUANTICO, VA– The American Civil Liberties Union last week sued the Department of Defense’s school system for children of ...

DUBLIN, CA - Community advocates and interfaith leaders from Buddhist, Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions and those ...

NEW YORK, NY - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of Colorado Monday said they sued Immigration and Customs ...

The Due Process Institute and four other civil rights institutions filed an amicus brief this past week on behalf of Michael ...

Prison abolitionists argue that the U.S. prison system is ineffective and that alternatives such as restorative justice and ...

Senator Chris Van Hollen has called for a moral clarity in defense of the Constitution, criticizing Governor Gavin Newsom and ...

LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced Friday that Los Angeles County Superior ...

How It Works and Who Profits reveals how corporations, investors, and government actors profit from human incarceration, and ...

WOODLAND, CA– A man was sentenced last Friday here in Yolo County Superior Court to 120 days in jail for allegedly inflicting ...

A new analysis from the Sacramento County Department of Health Services reveals nearly one-third of people booked into the ...