Voters Across Country Accelerate Unprecedented Momentum to Legalize...
DPA: Election Solidifies Drug Policy Reform as Mainstream Political Issue, Boosts Efforts to Legalize Marijuana in California and Elsewhere in 2016 Voters across the country have accelerated the...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky Talks US Militarism and Capitalism, at Home and Abroad
Noam Chomsky discusses the recent climate agreement between the US and China, the rise of the Islamic State and the movement in Ferguson against racism and police violence. (Screen grab via GRITtv) In...
View ArticleBad? Suffering From Youthful Tendency Disorder? Lost Children in a Lost Society
(Book cover: Teachers College Press)Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, by Crystal T. Laura, will change the way you think about the social and academic worlds of Black boys....
View ArticleHow Washington’s War on Terror Has Become a War on Human Rights Defenders in...
Daniel Pascual doesn’t come across as a “terrorist.” The 42-year-old Kiche Maya and current president of the Comite Unidad Campesino (CUC) has been at the forefront of the movement to defend indigenous...
View ArticleWhy Is Marissa Alexander Still Being Punished for Fighting Back?
August 3, 2013: A demonstration to free Marissa Alexander, A mother who was jailed for firing warning shots to ward off her abusive husband. (Photo: Cactusbones) On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, Marissa...
View ArticleSex Workers’ Lawsuit Claims California’s Prostitution Law Is Unconstitutional
Protesters demonstrate at the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, in San Francisco, California, December 17, 2010. (Photo: Steve Rhodes) Sex workers and their allies filed a lawsuit...
View ArticleDe Blasio Administration to Make Substantial Reforms to Non-Criminal Summons...
New York — Today the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) announced plans to revise parts of the NYC Summons process. The announcement comes after advocates voiced key questions and concerns about...
View ArticleIs Queer Sex Legal? How Sex Laws Have Changed (or Not) Since 1964
A couple embraces at the Gay Pride Rally in Toulouse, France, June 18, 2011. (Photo: Guillaume Paumier) The Mattachine Society was one of the earliest US gay rights groups, formed in 1950 to address...
View ArticleDriver’s License Suspensions: Another Obstacle Perpetuated by the Criminal...
Protests in Ferguson, Mo. led to investigations that uncovered a deeply problematic justice system that pulled thousands of people into a web of criminal justice debt and aggressive debt collection...
View Article“Whiteness,” Criminality and the Double Standards of Deviance/Social Control
Authors Note: The following is an excerpt from a piece recently published in Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice. The full article can be downloaded here....
View ArticleBlack Domestic Violence Survivors Are Criminalized From All Directions
Often, when women have no choice but to injure or kill an abusive partner to save their own lives, they are punished for it. (Photo: Handcuffed Woman via Shutterstock) Domestic violence survivors are...
View ArticleScott Walker Has a Terrible Plan to Drug Test Welfare Recipients
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is, in many ways, a formidable candidate to be the GOP presidential nominee. Which is why, at the announcement of his candidacy, it was disheartening to hear him boast...
View ArticleFreeHer: Formerly Incarcerated Women Build a National Network
Formerly incarcerated advocates with matriarch “Grandma” Phyllis Hardy, freed in March after 23 years and on Skype at FreeHer. (Photo: Jean Trounstine) “Women have always been the change agents of our...
View ArticleTake a Valium, Lose Your Kid, Go to Jail
(Photo: Pregnant Woman via Shutterstock; Edited: LW / TO) Casey Shehi’s son James was born in August 2014, remarkably robust even though he was four weeks premature. But the maternity nurse at Gadsden...
View ArticleHIV Is Not a Murder Weapon: Racism and the Criminalization of AIDS
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)Help Truthout keep publishing stories like this: They can’t be found in corporate media! Make a tax-deductible donation today. “HIV has [had] a negative effect on my...
View ArticleWas the UN About to Recommend Drug Decriminalization?
It might be just two pages long, but a leaked briefing paper purporting to be from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is generating international controversy as readers debate whether it was...
View ArticleTen Years After Operation Streamline, Criminal Immigration Charges Dominate...
This week marks 10 years since Operation Streamline took effect. The policy significantly increased the caseloads in criminal courts along the southern U.S. border by criminalizing what used to be a...
View ArticlePunished for Survival: Domestic Violence, Criminalization and the Case of...
Naomi Freeman, upon release on bond, is reunited with her two children. (Photo: Courtesy of Tannecha)Truthout survives on tax-deductible donations from thousands of dedicated readers every year. Will...
View ArticleWhen You Can’t Afford the Cost of Clearing Your Criminal Record
Adrienne broke the law: Caught speeding on her way home from work in Memphis, Tennessee, she pled guilty to charges of reckless driving and reckless endangerment. Two years later, Adrienne had...
View ArticleAcross Latin America, Governments Criminalize Social Movements to Silence...
A supporter of Rigoberto Juarez cries as a security guard tries to handcuff Juarez at the end of the hearing on January 18, 2016. (Photo: WNV / Jeff Abbott) Below the Tribunal Towers in Guatemala City,...
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