Prison

The US has the highest youth incarceration rate in the world with 336 juvenile incarcerations per 100,000 youth - nearly five times as many as the second highest country.

After unintentionally miscarrying, women in El Salvador have been charged with murder.

The Jails Action Coalition is a grassroots group that has been pushing for an end to all forms of solitary confinement.

LeslieAnn Manning reported being raped by another inmate.

Five companies extracting huge profits from the growth of prisons, often out of public sight.

Despite heightened attention to the issues surrounding solitary confinement, women often remain overlooked.

CCA filed a formal objection with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking to exclude the resolution from its 2015 proxy materials distributed to shareholders.

The petition and the letter submitted today by the bipartisan group of former attorneys general argue that high phone rates are passed on to the consumers who pay for …

Radical queer organizing was alive and well in the US in 2014; you just may not have heard about it in mainstream media.

We are STILL in the era of “mass” and “hyper” incarceration.