Students protest the American prison system Monday at the Rock. Photo by Alex Campbell / North by Northwestern.
On Monday, metal bars encircled the Rock in a protest of the American prison system, while a handful students slept nearby.
During the protest, dubbed “Starving the Prison Industrial Complex,” fifteen people fasted and camped out by the [...]

The Rock was a given an imprisoned look today by some students involved in protesting the Prison Industrial Complex. After an educational panel about the criminal justice system in Illinois and the potential alternatives to incarceration, students will sleep at the Rock and fast for about 24 hours. The panel and fast is [...]

A drug policy expert spoke last Monday about the problems with Illinois’s drug laws.