According to a new report, ICE raids and other immigration enforcement efforts have undermined the basic labor rights of workers. Rebecca Smith is one of the report's coauthors. And Amy Bach asks whether Joe Sullivan, sentenced as a 13-year-old to life without parole, got a fair trial.

Are crime and political dissent mutually exclusive? Or is crime control connected to the control and repression of political movements? Pamela Oliver considers these questions in the context of the Black urban riots of the 1960s and the ongoing mass incarceration of African Americans. Also, Patrick Bond comments on the global economic strategy announced at last week's G-20 summit.

An innocent man is convicted. A guilty person isn't prosecuted. Are these miscarriages of justice? Markus Dubber argues that the US penal system, whose operation is driven by the state's police power, does not in fact seek to do justice. Also, Harriet Fraad and Rick Wolff suggest ways of addressing the current economic/psychological crises.

How many incompetently represented people get convicted, or even executed? In the volume We Dissent, Abbe Smith describes what's happened to poor people's access to effective legal representation. And Michael Risher of the ACLU talks about federal rules, to take effect Friday, that direct the collection and databanking of DNA samples from innocent people.