Prisons

For Proscovia, the custody hearing solidified her belief that the war on terror is really a war against her faith.

Untucked shirts and wrong-colored socks are putting Mississippi's young African-Americans on the road to

The Occupy movement is raising awareness and trying to put an end to major corporations profiting from prison privatization.

Plea bargaining has become historically ubiquitous as the principal, if not primary, method of criminal case disposition in the US.

The former warden of San Quentin State Prison, Jeanne Woodford, joins us to discuss why she has come out in favor of Proposition 34, a ballot initiative to abolish …

The Amnesty report states that u201cno other US state is believed to have held so many prisoners for such long periods in indefinite isolation.u201d

Ferguson was sentenced to death for a 1977 mass murder in Miami Dade, which he committed shortly after the state released him from a mental hospital against the warnings …

A year after their hunger strike, prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of Pelican Bay State Prison send an open letter to Governor Jerry Brown expressing their frustration …

In Boca Raton on Monday, the presidential candidates will be greeted by young activists with questions not covered in the debates.

Californians are locked into contributing to the cost of treating state inmates sickened by valley fever.