In April, the Department of Justice terminated roughly $820 million in public safety grants. We’re leading the challenge to these illegal and arbitrary cuts in a class action lawsuit.

In April, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) abruptly terminated roughly $820 million in grants that funded more than 200 organizations across 37 states to do life-saving work that makes communities safer. Today, we are leading the challenge to these illegal and arbitrary funding terminations in a class action lawsuit, filed by Democrac ...

LaShawn Lewis is currently incarcerated at one of the prisons affected by this year’s corrections officer strikes.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an extreme shortage of staff within the carceral system. As a result, security staff are at times forced to work and are routinely exposed to high levels of stress and traumatic events. Without a doubt, this pattern becomes taxing both mentally and physically. This fatigue affects a number of different ...

97 people have died in LA County jails since the start of 2023.

How are people dying? Los Angeles County has not yet publicly issued causes of death for everyone who has died in county jails in recent months. And even once even once autopsy reports are finalized, they don’t tell the whole story. When the coroner rules that a death is the result of “natural causes,” jail conditions can still be to blame. Researc ...