Prisons

An estimated 80,000 men, women and even children are being held in solitary confinement on any given day in US prisons.

While racist police practices, and the associated racialized discourse of criminality, have received national attention in the wake of SB 1070, they are nothing new to Arizona.

Bonding the way women prisoners do is not as common among their male counterparts, some prison officials say.

The story of Tamms Correctional Center is the story of what may be the last throes of the supermax movement, and what a campaign against torture accomplished in less …

For decades, theyu2019ve helped build Americau2019s build Americau2019s criminal justice system. Now that system is changing. Can law enforcement unions change as well?

Schools are more and more beginning to resemble maximum-security prisons, but at least at most of those institutions, there is one hour of outdoor time.

Illinois provides a new model for dismantling debtors' prisons across the country.

Can those who want regulatory bodies to bring bankers to justice and those who seek a radical overhaul or dismantling of America's criminal justice system work together?

Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a …

But below the spin is a different reality for the company and the prisoners that it oversees - food riots and abuse scandals.