coronavirus County sheriffs claim that prisoners sleeping head-to-toe count as being "six feet apart" for coronavirus safety Thom Dunn
police This popular police "mindreading" technique is bullshit — but the things that cops say about it are somehow even worse. Thom Dunn
police A bunch of rookie cops have recently been fired for doing bad things. Let's think about that for a moment. Thom Dunn
late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
police BREAKING: A quantity of those who labor in police departments are the same as those who ignite crucifixes Thom Dunn
Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
denialism Leaks reveal how the "Pitbull of PR" helped Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers ignite the opioid crisis Cory Doctorow
fixed it for you Scholar finds John Milton's copy of Shakespeare, marked up with corrections and improvements Clive Thompson
trump PAC for private prison giant that builds ICE 'detention centers' gave money to these 50 lawmakers Xeni Jardin
human rights Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
science fiction Duke University acquires the archives of Charles N Brown, founder of Locus Magazine Cory Doctorow
monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
politics More than 1,000 TSA workers still waiting for their paycheck after Trump government shutdown Xeni Jardin
