Prison

This analysis of the torture tactics and repressive methods used in administrative segregation prisons across Texas draws parallels with Naomi Klein's book

Research has shown that nonviolent, low-level drug offenders have contributed significantly to the dramatic rise in incarceration in the last four decades.

An inmate at California's Pelican Bay State Prison makes an impassioned plea for Marissa Alexendar:

In this episode, Truthout Executive Director Maya Schenwar discusses the harrowing story of her sister giving birth in prison.

Roberto Rodriguez invites President Obama and Attorney General Holder to step inside the courtrooms during Operation Streamline to witness the speedy

Judges took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit youth jails.

A new campaign exposes the companies that profit off prisoners.

The vast majority of the 10,000 babies born to US prisoners each year are deprived of their mothers - and their mother's milk.

On 22 May 2013 I wrote an analysis titled “Staying Sober.” It recounted two news stories that drew many hopeful comments from progressives. One was about the New York-based …

Families and former prisoners held for years in solitary confinement expressed optimism October 9 after the first of several California Public Safety Committee hearings about the punishment, promised in …