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34 Reforms That Could Save Lives. Your State Legislators Have Them. Here Is What Is in Them.
In November 2025, the Prison Policy Initiative sent a package to 650 state legislators across all 50 states. The package contained 34 specific, evidence-based policy
Japan Forcibly Sterilized 25,000 Disabled People. It Took 76 Years to Call It Unconstitutional.
On July 3, 2024, Japan’s Supreme Court ruled that the Eugenic Protection Law. which had been in force from 1948 to 1996. was unconstitutional. The
The Only School in America Still Shocking Disabled Children Just Got the FDA to Miss Its Own Deadline. Again.
Three days ago, on June 1, 2026, the US Food and Drug Administration missed its latest deadline to publish a final rule banning the use
Australia Has Been Sending Asylum Seekers to a Pacific Island Prison for Over a Decade. The UN Just Ruled It Illegal. Australia Extended the Contract Anyway.
In January 2025, the UN Human Rights Committee issued two landmark rulings find that Australia remained responsible for the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers transferred
They Denied Them Menstrual Pads. They Kept Them in Cages. This Is What Israel Does to Palestinian Women in Detention.
As of June 2, 2026, 89 Palestinian women are being held in Israeli prisons and detention centers, following the arrest of four young women this
Australia’s Disability Services Threaten to Cut Services for a Six-Year Old Girl with Cerebral Palsy for Not the First Time
Australia’s National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) announced plans in April to remove around 160,000 people who are disabled from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
China Called Islam a Mental Illness. Then It Built Hundreds of Hospitals to Cure It.
What the Chinese Communist Party is doing to Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang has a name. It’s called as treatment. Since 2017, over a million individuals
85% of Incarcerated Youth Have a Disability. The School System Put Them There.
Before a child is arrested, booked, or sees the interior of a juvenile detention facility, they are nearly usually familiar with another institution: their school.