Prisons

Mother's Day needs to become a call to arms against the continued oppression and trauma of incarceration experienced by both mothers and children.

Power will not hesitate to use your identity against you if it can. The police violence to which Cecily McMillan was subjected was explicitly gendered, and in this she …

An attempt to hold the US contractor CACI International accountable for torture at Abu Ghraib could result in the victims being held liable for legal fees.

Across the United States and the world, there is an emerging movement calling for the end of solitary confinement.

The appearance of a cruelty-free execution has always been just that: a carefully-crafted appearance.

Ten years after the first publication of photos from inside the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Al Jazeera journalist Salah Hassan speaks about his torture by US forces inside …

In his new book, Matt Taibbi explains how two of the most troubling trends in the United States are interwoven: economic inequality and mass incarceration. Wealth can merit an …

The law's passage is thanks to sustained pressure from the families of shooting victims.

An elite scientific panel noted with alarm that the U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world.

In her new book, Deborah Jiang-Stein explores racial and family identity, alienation and reconciliation with adopted parents.