Prisons

Closing Cages: People Power Helps Stop Youth Incarceration

With the number of youth behind bars at an all-time low, are more youth jails really necessary?

A control unit prison is one in which every prisoner is locked away in their own individual box about 23 hours a day under conditions of severe sensory deprivation.

The GEO Group -the nation's second largest for-profit, private prison firm - recently announced its intention to gift $6 million over a 12-year period to Florida Atlantic University (FAU).

The current gun hysteria will serve as an excuse to expand the police state.

Toshio Meronek's review of Prisons Will Not Protect You highlights the emphasis by the book's contributors that the Corrections Department isn't in the business of correcting oppression.

State prisons play musical chairs with inmate populations and come up short.

Forty percent of Palestine's male population is, or has been, imprisoned in Israeli jails.

Private prisons maximize profits with a racial twist.

n Detroit, on MLK Day, hundreds gathered to rally and protest against the persistent nightmares of inequality in urban cities nationwide.