Prison

Today, a coalition of over 175 artists, actors, athletes, elected officials and advocates, brought together by hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons and Dr. Boyce Watkins, presented an open letter to …

Across the U.S. on Thursday, street protests will support prisoners detained at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo who are engaged in a large-scale hunger strike, which began in early …

The problem of the mass incarceration of America didn't start with a single event and it won't end with one.

This morning, activist Daniel McGowan was picked up from the halfway house where he has been residing and taken into custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. McGowan, …

Thanks to the psychiatric drug revolution, inmates in our correctional facilities recieve drugs instead of therapy.

Thanks to the psychiatric drug revolution, inmates in our correctional facilities recieve drugs instead of therapy.

Injustice often operates in secret ways. This has certainly been the case with predatory prison phone rates. But after nearly a decade of advocacy from public interest and civil …

From shackling to sterilization, thousands of incarcerated people are struggling to maintain control over their own reproductive health.

Chris Hedges speaks with two longtime prisoner advocates about the shame of America's gulags.

Closing Cages: People Power Helps Stop Youth Incarceration