Tech Company Aims to Disrupt Predatorial Prison Phone Industry The Ameelio app ensures that incarcerated people and their loved ones can stay in touch without going into crippling debt. Shani Saxon Feb 17, 2021 3:30PM ET
Juvenile Justice Advocates Call on Biden Administration to Prioritize Jailed Youth Youth First president and CEO Liz Ryan spoke to Colorlines about why it’s time to close youth prisons and shift those resources into communities. Shani Saxon Feb 4, 2021 1:30PM ET
Activists Launch National Campaign to Ban ‘No-Knock’ Police Raids Campaign Zero is working with 37 city and state governments to pass comprehensive legislation that will better protect civilians. Shani Saxon Dec 4, 2020 3:15PM ET
House and Senate Democrats Propose Change to 13th Amendment, Ending Slave Labor in Prisons The joint resolution seeks to amend the controversial clause, which has permitted the exploitation of labor by people convicted of felonies since the abolition of chattel slavery. Shani Saxon Dec 3, 2020 4:30PM EST
SCOTUS to Rule on Challenge to Convictions Made Under (Racist) Non-Unanimous Jury Laws Justices will decide whether those with finalized convictions under ‘Jim Crow’ jury laws have a right to a new trial. Shani Saxon Dec 2, 2020 5:15PM ET
Honestie Hodges, Whose Handcuffing Sparked Outrage, Dies of COVID-19 at 14 The teen, who made headlines in 2017 after she was handcuffed by Grand Rapids, Michigan, police at 11 years old, died from the deadly virus. Shani Saxon Nov 25, 2020 4:15PM EST
