You might suppose that a "gang enhancement" is intended to make a gang larger. Actually it is a euphemism for lengthening a prison sentence based on claiming the prisoner belongs to a gang. Most prisoners in California have their sentences increased in this way, but generally it happens only to blacks and Hispanics.

While in prison, the prisoners can be put in solitary confinement for long periods based on flimsily arguments that they belong to gangs.

Prison phone companies in the US continue to gouge poor people in prison and cut them off from their families.

Closeness with family is an important factor in steering ex-cons away from crime. If the US penal system were seriously trying to reduce crime, it would immediately offer each prisoner many hours per week of gratis phone calls to family and close friends.

Bolsonaro is cutting off archaeology to study the ancient societies of Amazonia.

If his plans to cut down the forest for plantations go ahead, much of the evidence will be destroyed.

The UN says that the total greenhouse gas emissions need to fall 7.6% a year for next decade, if global heating disaster is to be avoided.

US citizens: call on legislators to eliminate face recognition in schools.

If you call, please spread the word!