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GEO Group and Private Prisons Stand to Profit as Trump Pushes Indefinite Family Detention
Bob Libal discusses more.
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Trump Frees Alice Johnson, but What About Thousands Still Serving Life for Nonviolent Drug Offenses?
Thousands of other prisoners are still serving life without parole for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Despite Reforms, US Remains the World’s Most Incarcerated Nation
Thirty percent of the world's incarcerated women are in the US.
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The $2 Billion Bail Industry Is Facing an Existential Crisis
It will take more than bail reform to end mass incarceration.
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Facility Staff Call Police as Senator Attempts to Examine Conditions of Immigrant Detention Center
The senator's effort to shed light on the living conditions of detained migrant children.
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Tucson Draws the Line on Prison Privatization
For-profit incarceration must end everywhere.
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Trump Rolls Back Rules Protecting Transgender Prisoners From Sexual Assault
Critics describe the policy shift as “a deliberate recipe for violence against transgender people.”
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Changing Parole Boards Is One Step Toward Weakening Mass Incarceration
New York State shifts away from permanent punishment.
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Fighting the Fees That Force Prisoners to Pay for Their Incarceration
‘'Pay-to-stay'’ fees push the poor into debt.
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A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding Transformation
Seeing justice done without relying on the barbarity of carceral systems.