Prisons

In the SHU, which comprises half of California's Pelican Bay State Prison, prisoners are locked into their cells for at least 22 hours a day. Over 500 people have …

Making Contact producer George Lavender investigates: is re-alignment the answer to the prison crisis?

Mark Adams' short but excessive sentence is, for many, an introduction to the risks of dissent.

On Valentine's Day this year, Florida almost made the unprecedented move to privatize 29 of its prisons, but the legislation was narrowly defeated.

While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits.

Of the 800 men and boys held at Guantanamo since 2002, 169 remain. Of those prisoners, 87 have had their release approved by military review boards established during the …

The newly released issue of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly features an article by Prof. Bell entitled

When legality ceases to resemble its moral roots, it has always been the case that the great mechanisms within our civil society jump into action to regulate, reform and …

Dozens of inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's only supermax facility, have been on a hunger strike since Tuesday, May 22, in what supporters say is a protest …

California's prison system being sued, as claimants call long-term solitary confinement torture.