Steidl spent twelve years on Illinois’ death row, awaiting execution by lethal injection and five more years as an LWOP (Life Without Parole) prisoner before he was finally…
Prison
Rodney King’s recent death and the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising generated a lot of heat, but little light on what caused those historic events.
In the SHU, which comprises half of California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, prisoners are locked into their cells for at least 22 hours a day. Over 500 people…
Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis?
Mark Adams’ short but excessive sentence is, for many, an introduction to the risks of dissent.
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits.
The newly released issue of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly features an article by Prof. Bell entitled
When legality ceases to resemble its moral roots, it has always been the case that the great mechanisms within our civil society jump into action to regulate, reform…
Dozens of inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia’s only supermax facility, have been on a hunger strike since Tuesday, May 22, in what supporters say is a…
The report detailed widespread lapses in standards as well as punitive treatment of immigrants who were mentally ill or filed grievances about conditions at the detention centers.