The medical examiner hasn’t announced the cause of death for a 58-year-old man who died Monday, but confirmed to HuffPost that he tested positive for COVID-19.
Rights & Liberties
The Coronavirus Has Spread to the US Marshals’ Detention Empire
Exclusive reporting reveals five people in federal detention have tested positive for COVID-19.
Police Are Trying To Free Inmates At Risk Of Coronavirus. Why Are Judges Blocking Them?
Judges are dangerously behind the curve in supporting compassionate release and other plans to reduce the jail population.
Public Access to Information Suffers Under Coronavirus
The pandemic has dealt a blow to transparency.
Fragility in Liberty
We travel from Liberty Island to the U.S.-Mexico border to discover how the end of Reconstruction and America’s present-day immigration crisis are inextricably bound.
Paid by the Pipeline
A Canadian Energy Company Bought an Oregon Sheriff’s Unit
US listed climate activist group as ‘extremists’ alongside mass killers
DHS listed activists engaged in non-violent civil disobedience targeting oil industry alongside white supremacists in documents.
One City’s Struggle to Police the Police
Under Obama, Newark promised to reform its force. Is the Trump administration failing to follow up?
Why Prisoners Get the Doctors No One Else Wants
Even after a major class action suit required Illinois to revamp its prison healthcare system, doctors whose alleged neglect resulted in major injury or death still remain on the prison system payroll.
Race, Crime and Surveillance
Why St. Louis’ Real Time Crime Center protects businesses before people.
Marshals’ Lawlessness
The Marshals Service has failed to make sure its detainees are held in safe conditions—even after hundreds of people have died on its watch.
Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire
They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.
The Perils of Private Prison Health Care
While serving a three-year sentence in an Arizona prison that contracts with a private health care company, Mariam Abdullah was diagnosed with mental illnesses.
Inside The Christian Legal Army Weakening the Church-State Divide
New documents offer a window into the ideology of a conservative legal powerhouse that enjoys unprecedented influence in Washington.
How the FBI Targeted Environmental Activists in Domestic Terror Investigations
Protesters were characterized as a threat to national security in what one calls an attempt to criminalize their actions.
When Solitary Confinement Is A Death Sentence
Mariam Abdullah died by suicide after the teen spent much of the final two years of her life in solitary confinement.
“Worse Than a Death Sentence”
Inside India’s sham trials that could strip millions of citizenship.
An American Black Site
It’s not just at Guantánamo. In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed — and barred from sharing their stories. An inmate breaks his silence for the first time.
A Search for Answers. A Search for Blame.
In grieving Parkland, there’s a fight ripping the community apart. And it has nothing to do with gun control.
Inside the Surveillance Program IBM Built for Rodrigo Duterte
IBM partnered with Philippine law enforcement despite evidence of police complicity in death squads.