Prisons

Legislative limitations on New Yorku2019s ability to impose sentences of solitary confinement are required to end its excessive and inhumane overuse in our Stateu2019s prisons.

Phone companies charge as much as $15 for 15 minutes in some states and many of America's roughly 2.3 million inmates and their families cannot afford to stay in …

Two new revelations and a critical analysis of the recent Department of Defense Inspector General report on the drugging of DoD-held detainees reveal a cover-up by the Pentagon and …

In the following exclusive interview, Annette Fuentes talks about her work, her book and shares insight into the u201cschool-to-prison pipeline,u201d including zero tolerance policies that puts kids in harmu2019s …

I am an alienist reincarnated, and poetry keeps me sane.

When you go through those prison gates, you won't come out again except in a body bag.

We do need to get our fiscal house in order, but after reading about The Bain Way and Mr. Romney's love of his business acumen, I disagree, more than …

Pregnant women in correctional facilities are more likely to experience miscarriage, preterm birth, low birth weight infants, and potentially fatal conditions like preeclampsia.

As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than …

When will the United States start thinking beyond bars?