Prison

Solitary confinement, which involves keeping an inmate alone in a small cell from 22 to 24 hours a day, doesn't just happen in faraway places like Iran. Roughly 80,000 …

What a strange moment we're in. Prison ‘reform’ is in vogue.

The bill unanimously passed by the Massachusetts Senate prohibits shackling during labor and delivery and sets minimum standards for pregnancy-related care for people in prisons.

A month before the 10-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib torture photos, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel urged a federal appeals court to re-open a …

Incarcerating mothers punishes their children, as well. It's time to reconsider the whole practice, says Samantha Sarra.

President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.

How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song “Mathematics” changed in the 15 years since the song's release?

Solitary confinement is torture - and it's not benefitting anyone in society. So, why does it continue to be used?

The death of a Canadian teen who strangled herself in a Canadian prison was ruled a homicide in a coroner's inquest. Is this a new form of killing by …

Davis’s work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced social movements across generations.