DC Justice Labâs 2026 Public Safety Policy Agenda is chock-full of evidence that criminal justice reforms that prioritize restorative justice, not draconian punishment, lead to safer communities.
Editorâs Note: The following is excerpted with permission from How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention, out from Haymarket Books July 2026. The Prison-Immigration Knot By the late 1980s, thanks to over a decade of laws criminalizing immigrants and expanding the camp system, prison and immigration detention industries were operating by their own [...]
July 4th has come and gone. The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence turned out to be underwhelming. Neither Trumpâs celebration of himself nor various localized MAGA events made much of an impression beyond those immediately involved. Emblematic was the march of a few hundred masked fascists â the âPatriotic Frontâ [...]