Prisons

Cops are performing illegal body cavity searches while rape and sexual assault remains rampant in jails and prisons.

As the hunger strikers enter their 4th week, Pelican Bay prisoner Lorenzo Benton describes what happens at the facility and theu00a0retaliatory actions that have been taken against the hunger …

The war on drugs is often more harmful to the users than the illicit substances that they use.

At stake here is the very meaning of social life and social death, and the continued legacy of slavery, both in the U.S. prison system and in the structure …

While we complain of 100 degree heat and take solace in our air-conditioned homes, prisoners across the country are suffering - and not just for their crimes.

Californians need to find the compassion in their hearts to recognize the heroism of incarcerated citizens.

Incarceration has become a very lucrative business for an array of private contractors, most of whom send lobbyists to Washington to make sure the laws and legislation continue to …

On July 8, more than 30,000 prisoners in California refused meals in the third such strike in two years. Prisoners in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, some …

The George Zimmerman verdict indicates a need for more than personal soul-searching by Americans. A national conversation about racism is warranted.

George Pauk takes a closer look at the Gitmo hunger strikers and hypothesizes about how starvation relates to freedom.