Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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How Jails Became Warehouses for the Poor, Ill and Addicted
A recent report found that the majority of people incarcerated in local and county jails committed minor violations including driving with suspended licenses, shoplifting or evading subway fares – and simply can't pay the $500 bail to leave.
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Cash Cops: How Civil Forfeiture Enriched U.S. Law Enforcement
The very people who are supposed to enforce the law are the ones who profit from ignoring it.
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Discrimination in Ferguson: Full Extent of Police Bias Laid Bare In Damning Justice Report
The full extent of the racial persecution of black residents in Ferguson, Missouri, by the city’s overwhelmingly white law enforcement authorities was disclosed on Wednesday in
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Police Killed More Than Twice As Many People As FBI Reported; Darren Wilson Walks
An average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the U.S. went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics every year for almost a decade, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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How the Government Outsourced Intelligence to Silicon Valley
Palantir – with its carefully honed image as a countercultural spy outfit committed to privacy in the pursuit of national security – is a monstrous government snoop, mining our most intimate data.
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Fear Incorporated: Canada’s Anti-Terror Bill and the Emergence of a Deep Police State
Bill C-51 represents a clear erosion of constitutional rights – if the bill becomes law, blocking a pipeline or organizing a protest without permission from authorities would be considered terrorism.
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Watched While Driving: Five Important Questions About the Federal Vehicle Surveillance Program
The DEA is collecting hundreds of millions of records about cars traveling on U.S. roads – but who approved the program, where does the data go, and are there limitations on its use? No one seems to know.
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The Disappeared: Chicago Police Detain Americans At Abuse-Laden "Black Site"
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, essentially disappearing Americans and locking them in the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
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Texas Judge Who Blocked Obama Immigration Action Had Criticized "Criminal Conspiracy" Policy
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen once accused the president's administration of participating in criminal conspiracies to smuggle children into the U.S. by helping reunite them with parents who live here illegally.
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Pentagon Makes No Secret of Wanting to Monitor Social Change Activism
The U.S. military is increasingly concerned about the risks to social, political and economic stability from resource stress and climate change – and whether they might lead governments to collapse.