The Fall Issue of NACLA is out! Prisons, Punishment, and Policing in the Americas

Announcing the Fall Issue of the NACLA Report: Prisons, Punishment, and Policing in the Americas

As protests and movements against police brutality and impunity continue to build throughout the United States, in Latin America the landscape of state violence and everyday crime is dire and getting worse, claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. Why? What can be done?

In the latest issue of the NACLA Report - out now - scholars, activists, and journalists shed light on the dark drivers of public security policy in the region—prisons, punishment, and policing—and their lethal consequences. For a full run-down, check out the Editor’s Introduction.

It’s now easier than ever to subscribe, to support NACLA’s work and mission. Your subscription gets you four quarterly issues with over 100 pages of content per issue. In this issue, on open-access for a limited time, find out:

• How does the policing of environmental activists lead to their silencing and persecution?​
• How have prisoners in Brazil created their own forms of internal management when the state has failed to protect them?
• How has colonialism fueled police surveillance in Puerto Rico - and how has the Puerto Rican political class cooperated?

Subscribe today to make sure you don’t miss any of the other vitally important content in this issue, including articles on:

• Brazil’s decisive turn against regional integration under President Michel Temer
• How policing practices in Chicago affect trans Latina sex workers
• Why Nicaragua is so much safer than its Northern Triangle neighbors
• How the history of crime news in Mexico intersects with the country’s horrific wave of violence

And so much more!