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Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: US Must Ensure Safety Upon Release for Guantánamo Prisoners
For many prisoners, release does not equate with freedom and can be the beginning of new misadventure, further persecution and incarceration.
Gitmo Attorneys Respond to Uighur Transfers
Slovakia has made a “profound humanitarian gesture.”
In America, Innocent Until Proven Guilty? Not For Most People Who Are Stuck in Jail
The most common reason people are in jail is because they can't afford the fee.
Former Prosecutor Gets Arrested to See the Other Side of US Criminal Justice System
Bobby Constantino, a former prosecutor from privileged background, lays bare the racism and inequities of the US American criminal justice system.
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Holiday Greeting: No Peace Without Justice
There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …
“If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go”: Elderly Prison Population Skyrockets Despite Low Risk to Society
Even amidst a modest reduction in the US prison population, the number of aging men and women expected to die behind bars has skyrocketed in a system ill prepared …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Three Days After Christmas, 1.3 Million Americans Will Lose Their Unemployment Benefits, and More
Three days after Christmas, 1.3 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits, and more.
Fifteen Things That We Relearned About the Prison Industrial Complex in 2013
The engine of the prison industrial complex unfortunately kept on chugging in 2013.
A Rapper’s Last Words Before Going to Jail
On December 5th Tunisian rapper Weld El 15 stood trial for performing his song
Brave New Foundation’s Series on Prison Profiteering
Each part of this series by the Brave New Foundation exposes an aspect of corruption in the American prison systems in the name of profit.