Prisons

What a strange moment we're in. Prison ‘reform’ is in vogue.

The bill unanimously passed by the Massachusetts Senate prohibits shackling during labor and delivery and sets minimum standards for pregnancy-related care for people in prisons.

A hunger strike at a private GEO Group migrant jail in Tacoma, Washington, has spread to another in Texas.

A month before the 10-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib torture photos, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel urged a federal appeals court to re-open a …

Incarcerating mothers punishes their children, as well. It's time to reconsider the whole practice, says Samantha Sarra.

President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.

Military protocols for force-feeding prisoners have been knowingly altered to inflict superfluous suffering.

How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song “Mathematics” changed in the 15 years since the song's release?

In the state of California it costs roughly seven times more to house one prisoner for a year than it does to send just one child to a college …

Police are now crunching crime statistics to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, a method seen by some as an expansion of a militarization …