Prisons

Maya Schenwar writes heartwrenchingly and unsparingly about the ravages wrought on human beings by prison.

Women are disproportionately affected by a prison system designed for men.

In this excerpt from Locked Down, Locked Out, Maya Schenwar delves into the damage wrought by prison on families.

The Dallas 6 are part of a national movement of prisoners using peaceful resistance to counter rampant abuses in solitary.

Confidence Men are steering the purported conservative-Right push for “prison reform.”

The ACLU claims that conditions in Arizona prisons caused numerous deaths and preventable injuries.

In this interview, Bill Ayers speaks with Maya Schenwar about her new book and how we can create a society that doesn't use prison to “solve” its problems.

Krishna ‘Kris’ Maharaj, now 75 years old, was handed a death sentence in 1987 in Miami after a seriously flawed trial for the murders of Derrick and Duane Moo …

With her dark brown hair pulled into a ponytail, one can see the emotions that play across Canales' face when she talks about solitary confinement - especially since her …

Private prisons hold only 8 percent of the US prison population. But for-profit companies have other ways of profiting from incarceration in local jails and state prisons.