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Congress created compassionate release as a way to free certain inmates, such as the terminally ill, when it becomes “inequitable” to keep them in prison any longer. Despite urging from lawmakers of both parties, officials deny or delay the vast majority of requests.

Today, only a third of all prisons provide ways for incarcerated people to continue their educations beyond high school.

Our schools should teach dissent. Indeed, a flourishing democracy depends on an informed and active citizenry who will speak out when they find laws to be unjust.

Truly International; Whitewashing rural America, parts 1 and 2; Reclaiming MLK’s mission; Inventing the inclusion rider; Just say no

The sanctuary movement needs an anti-war voice. This article was produced in partnership with Foreign Policy In Focus.

“History,” Winston Churchill said, “will be kind to me, for I intend to write it myself.” He needn’t have bothered. He was one of the great mass murderers of the 20th century, yet is the only one, unlike Hitler and Stalin, to have escaped historical odium in the West.

Four Chicago-area students discuss why they are taking active roles in their schools' walkouts on March 14 to remember the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

At a community meeting last fall, we asked our members if they feared being pushed out of South Los Angeles. All hands were raised.

For those who say people kill not gun, I would say what really kills is white privilege, not guns. We are living in a time, where a black kid could be shot by the police for holding a toy gun and young Muslims can be sent to life in prison for daring to think of a gun. At the same time, white folks are actually, buying and carrying, machine, and assault weapons, threatening and intimidating neighbors, teachers, friends and classmates under the watch eyes of our law enforcements, as in the latest shooting at Parkland High School in Florida.

For the past year, AlterNet has reported on ICE's notable cruelty since Trump's inauguration. Now the numbers are in, and they confirm that the stories of ICE targeting non-criminal individuals aren't just one-off aberrations.