Prisons

The Illinois Department of Corrections' response to last week's story about hunger strikers at the Menard Correctional Center may represent an opening for resolution of the strike.

Metaphors matter and it is bad policy and worse poetry to describe education as a pipeline.

Activists are supporting the prisoners at Illinoisu2019 Menard Correctional Facility who have been on hunger strike since January 15 to protest their conditions of confinement.

When you can get inmate labor for less than a dollar a day, it's hard to see the government's motivation for incarcerating fewer people. And it's all done at …

The shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private …

“While support for major reform is growing in both political parties, many prosecutors are still living in the dark ages.”

The prisoners themselves would play a critical role in making this scheme by having to sign away their right to be incarcerated and rehabilitated within the state of West …

As women of color who identify as feminist and who engage online, we are implicated in this conversation.

Vermont and West Virginia recently introduced transparency and accountability legislation aimed at protecting taxpayersand putting them back in charge of their public services.

West Virginia legislators are currently faced with deciding if the state should ship prisoners across state lines to for-profit private prisons.