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Silhouette of mother and child by a fence at sunset (Adobe Stock) By Heather C. Jarvis / Prism Reports My youngest daughter, Annalaya, has only ever known me as a voice on the phone. She was 5 months old when I got incarcerated nearly a decade ago. She calls me “mommy,” but I have never been physically present in her life. I’ve mailed her presents but never witnessed her blow out her birthday candles. I’ve never witnessed her slurp spaghetti, pick up toys, or skip excitedly through schoo...

Photo via iStock By Marium Zahra / Prism Reports From book bans to anti-critical race theory laws adopted by 28 states, youth censorship is increasingly becoming an issue in U.S. high schools, especially for young journalists. Students say school newspapers are one of the few outlets high schoolers have to report on their communities and that limiting what they can write about directly immobilizes their voices. “ firmly says that youth expression should only be at the discretion of the adults ...

Coast Salish water warriors in canoes delayed a U.S. military ship believed to be carrying weapons from the Port of Tacoma to Israel.

In Tuesday’s elections, liberal and progressive parents banded together to push back against the right-wing takeover of local government.

Two months ago, parent Lela Casey told the Central Bucks school board, in the third-largest school district in Pennsylvania, that things had gotten out of hand. In March, a man signed up to speak using an alias that referenced the comic book vigilante The Punisher, accused the school library of possessing “child pornography,” and suggested that the Democratic school board members on the Republican-majority board belonged in prison. Casey also saw him carrying a concealed weapon&#x2...

In a TV segment, CNN's Fareed Zakaria explained the submissive arrangements that his outlet and others are making with the Israeli military. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams U.S. corporate media outlets have granted Israeli military commanders pre-publication review rights for "all materials

Press freedom is under scrutiny as Western journalists embedded with the IOF, submit their footage for the review of the Occupation's military commanders.

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In 2021, Louisiana spent $2.8 million to study what it would cost to cool all of its prisons with air conditioning, but it is still waiting on results.

Record temperatures in much of the U.S. threatening more people in prisons.