Prisons

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.

Michelle Alexander: Yes, I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.

In June 2012, the Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) produced a

No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that Americau2019s current racial caste system is its last.