Prison

Lewis James Little was finally released after a month of incarceration for a murder he did not commit.

The Illinois Department of Corrections' response to last week's story about hunger strikers at the Menard Correctional Center may represent an opening for resolution of the strike.

Metaphors matter and it is bad policy and worse poetry to describe education as a pipeline.

Activists are supporting the prisoners at Illinoisu2019 Menard Correctional Facility who have been on hunger strike since January 15 to protest their conditions of confinement.

“While support for major reform is growing in both political parties, many prosecutors are still living in the dark ages.”

Vermont and West Virginia recently introduced transparency and accountability legislation aimed at protecting taxpayersand putting them back in charge of their public services.

West Virginia legislators are currently faced with deciding if the state should ship prisoners across state lines to for-profit private prisons.

A social justice activist who married a prisoner and former Black Panther tells Truthout that after seven months they've only been allowed by the prison system to hold hands.

By 2030, the prison population age 55 and over is predicted to be 4,400 percent more than what it was in 1981. Some state and federal prison systems look …

It's been 12 years since the prison at Guantanamo Bay opened, and the fundamental issues of indefinite detention and perpetual war remain.