Prisons

Fouzi Khalid Abdullah al-Awda, 37, one of two last Kuwaiti prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay Prison will be the fifth detainee undergoing a Periodic Review Board hearing Wednesday, June …

Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the case class action status.

Local governments want drones, tanks and SWAT teams for the same reason they want prisons and the death penalty: to keep us under control.

The US governmentu2019s policy of abusive force-feeding at Guantu00e1namo Bay is causing “agony” to prisoners, a federal judge said last night.

An officer assaulted a woman in a waiting area, claiming that she was violating custody rules because she took a dose of painkiller for an infected tooth.

Join CCR to demand the closure of Guantanamo and to build opposition to both this prison and to all sites of unjust US detentions.

This past Wednesday advocates, victims, elected representatives and officials came to testify about what to do with our juveniles who commit homicide.

Texas prison inmates report being raped at some of the highest rates in the country, and the problem only seems to be worsening.

This Mother's Day, Shanesha Taylor, a 25-year old homeless and unemployed mother, will be fighting for her freedom and her children for committing the unspeakable crime: trying to feed …

Considering the decimation of families and communities brought about by mass incarceration, what is the societal value of locking up people for such amounts of time?