Prison

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

Closing Cages: People Power Helps Stop Youth Incarceration

A control unit prison is one in which every prisoner is locked away in their own individual box about 23 hours a day under conditions of severe sensory deprivation.

The GEO Group -the nation's second largest for-profit, private prison firm - recently announced its intention to gift $6 million over a 12-year period to Florida Atlantic University (FAU).

A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) attributes staggering growth in the federal prison population over the last 30 years in part to failed sentencing and correctional …

When it came to financial collapse, Iceland did the opposite of us. The results are not allowed on our mainstream media; to learn more watch this clip, and to …

Forty percent of Palestine's male population is, or has been, imprisoned in Israeli jails.

In light of confirmation hearings beginning today for Senator Chuck Hagel to be President Obama’s next Secretary of Defense, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: …

Private prisons maximize profits with a racial twist.

To date, Obama has pardoned less than two dozen and commuted even fewer sentences.