Prisons

Governor Rick Perry has announced that Texas will not comply with the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

Determining the “risk” level of releasing incarcerated people does not address the massive destruction of people and communities wrought by our criminal “justice” system.

A new 40-minute documentary film by Canadian History Professor Ron Harpelle, entitled “Hard Time,” focuses on the life of Robert Hillary King, who spent 29 years in continuous solitary …

A UN Human Rights Committee excoriates the US civil and political rights record, enumerating 25 lapses - including torture, drone attacks, police violence, racialized justice, Guantanamo, criminalization of homelessness …

Following the death of two prisoners at New York City's Rikers Island facility, there is mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement.

Immigrant detainees at migrant jails in Conroe, Texas, and Tacoma, Washington, are hunger striking.

Subhankar Banerjee makes the connection between climate change and inaction on it, and other US social problems.

Goldman Sach's investment in reducing recidivism in New York City jails is an experiment with a new trend in what are called “social impact bonds.” Burning questions about who …

Solitary confinement, which involves keeping an inmate alone in a small cell from 22 to 24 hours a day, doesn't just happen in faraway places like Iran. Roughly 80,000 …

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