Human Rights

Last month, Anchorage conducted a sweep on a large homeless encampment on Fairbanks Street following numerous complaints from local businesses and residents about public health and safety concerns. Despite these issues, no…

Michael Bell Sr. has believed for years that Kenosha police officers victimized his family — first by killing his son in 2004 and then, he alleges, by covering up what…

In a lot of ways, an attack on Nabala Cafe always felt inevitable — and we didn’t even have a Palestinian flag hanging in the window when we first opened in July.…

A new coffee stand called the Coffee Corner at our Brooklyn Justice Initiatives office is bringing humanity to the legal process by giving people involved in the justice system a chance…

Police and soldiers from Uganda’s U.S.-trained army cracked down on Ugandan oil pipeline protests on Monday. The demonstrators advocated against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, continuing the globally condemned…

Fifty years ago this month, the landmark Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act was signed into law. At the time, there were roughly half a million children locked up in adult…

The role of the death penalty as a toll of the racist system of criminal punishment has been long documented. In the case of Alameda County, California, the inside story…

Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on punitive drug testing for pregnant women and newborns, aiming to better support patients’ treatment and recovery from substance use disorder…

This past May, Mayor Michelle Wu hailed Boston as “one of the safest major cities in the country.” Wu’s statement was not grandstanding; recent data bears out her claim, and the city has made headlines throughout…

Six years ago, amid the cotton fields of South Carolina, a stabbing spiraled into America’s deadliest prison riot in a generation. The next morning, it fell to a prisoner at…

On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and…

One night in March of 2023, Amari Marsh went to the bathroom and suffered a miscarriage. “I screamed because I was scared, because I didn’t know what was going on,”…