| Black Agenda Report

Weihua Li, Beth Schwartzapfel, Michael R. Sisak and Camille Fassett
Jail Populations Back Up After COVID-19
09 Jun 2021
Judges, prosecutors and sheriffs in many states sent people home instead of to jail last year, but new data suggests the change is not lasting.
H. Claire Brown
How Corporations Buy—and Sell—Food Made With Prison Labor
02 Jun 2021
The small world of prison food production is a microcosm of the American food system, which all too o#en functions as a race to the bottom.
Adam Mahoney
The US’s Biggest County Jails Are Sites of Extreme Environmental Injustice
06 May 2021
After first being forced to live in chemically toxic communities, Black and Brown people are then incarcerated in jails where they cannot escape some of the worst pollution in the nation.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Forced Labor in the U.S.
10 Feb 2021
Forced labor of Uyghurs in China is questionable, but there is absolute proof that incarcerated people in this country are forced to work for little or no pay.
Aaron Greene
Lynchings By Law
10 Dec 2020
The Trump administration plans to execute five people before there is a change of power. “The death penalty is the ultimate human rights violation.”
Hannah Gaskill
Report: Incarceration Destabilizes Neighborhood Economies, Doesn’t Increase Safety
25 Nov 2020
Mass incarceration robs and destabilizes Black communities, and doesn’t make anyone safter.
Michele Bratcher Goodwin
We Can’t Be Free Until We Fully Abolish Slavery
14 Oct 2020
Through a loophole in the 13th Amendment, governments and corporations profit from cheap, incarcerated labor.
y Joaquin Sapien, Topher Sanders, Nate Schweber and Daniel Zender
NYPD Promoted Cop Accused of Vicious Strip Searches of Over a Dozen Black and Latino Men
16 Sep 2020
Of at least 77 allegations made against McCormack in 26 separate CCRB complaints, 29 were unsubstantiated; five were ‘unfounded.’”
Calvin Duncan
End the Injustice of Nonunanimous Juries
09 Sep 2020
Non-unanimous verdicts allow ten jurors to “simply ignore the views of their fellow panel members of a different race or class.”
Ali Winston
Decades-Old Gang Laws Are Being Used to Target Black Lives Matter Protesters
09 Sep 2020
By using gang laws, authorities can do an end run around First Amendment protections on freedom of association