Prison

In response to a Supreme Court mandate to reduce its penitentiary population, California is shipping prisoners to private correctional facilities in other states.

Last Saturday, residents of the southern Lousiana parish of Lafourche voted down a measure that would have rededicated library funding to the construction of a proposed $25 million jail.

Damien Echols of the West Memphis 3 discusses his ordeal during a screening of a new documentary about his case.

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.