New Orleans has been sued for systematically jailing the poor to make them pay fine after fine.

Sanders and other senators have proposed a bill to ban private prisons.

The IMF has imposed more suffering on Honduras. The likely result is for thousands of Hondurans to sneak into the US.

Instead of militarizing the US border, the US could tell the IMF to lay off Honduras.

The library of Lebanon, New Hampshire, will resume running its Tor node, standing up to the US government campaign to eliminate privacy.

The cost to society of mass incarceration is much larger than the cost of running prisons.

Over half of former prisoners remain unemployed five years later. They'd need a conscience of iron to resist crime when it's the only opportunity they will ever get.