Prison

ColorLines magazine just released their list "10 Racial Justice Wins for 2013"—and it is impressive. In a year when George Zimmerman was permitted to legally lynch Trayvon Martin, it …

Grace is the good we do not deserve. A society without grace, a society without mercy, a society that knows only vengeance, is a horrid land of violence and …

Since drug defendants rarely prevail at trial, it is not surprising that 97 percent of them decide to plead guilty.

Nelson Mandela's story, if told as a novel, would not be deemed possible in real life. Worse, we don't tell such stories in many of our novels.

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: