| Black Agenda Report

Simon Rolston, Nora Demnati
Anti-Black Racism in Canadian Prisons Remains Rampant, Despite Government Pledges
13 Oct 2021
Systemic racism is built into Canada’s prison system, but federal parties have little to offer incarcerated Black Canadians and their families.
Tamar Sarai Davis
Organizers Are Calling on Congress to Close Loophole That Enables Prison Slavery
08 Jul 2021
The ‘slavery clause’ made the passage of restrictions targeting Black people like the Black Codes possible as well as convict leasing of the late 19th century.
Lisa Armstrong
Lost Opportunity, Lost Lives
01 Jul 2021
Prison officials could have prevented sickness and death by releasing those who were most vulnerable to coronavirus and least likely to reoffend — older incarcerated people.
Henry A. Giroux
To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing
23 Jun 2021
The same activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective movement to bring an end to neoliberal capitalism.
Chris Gelardi
Hacked Emails Give Unfiltered View Into the DC Police Gang Database
23 Jun 2021
“Police can call you a gang member because they observed you with other gang members, who they declared gang members because they were with other gang members.”
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.”