“AB 32 is the most progressive and far-reaching bill on immigration detention in this country.” In a big win for prison reform and immigration advocates, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday a ...
“Everyone is caught between who they are and who they could be.” With all of life’s ups and downs, sometimes we just need a second chance. “Imprisoned,” Equitas Entertainment’s newest film, is a story about ...
“CoreCivic’s profit model is built around understaffing and constant lockdowns of poorly run, exceedingly dangerous prisons.” A July report from the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) and No Exceptions Prison Collective found that CoreCivic, a ...
There are now more black people in correctional control (prison, jail, probation, or parole) than there were enslaved in 1850. Sen. Bernie Sanders released a sweeping plan to overhaul America’s criminal justice system on Sunday, ...
“Companies that make money from the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration policy and a criminal justice system that disproportionately imprisons people of color are going to pay taxes like any other corporation.” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) ...
“When they passed the First Step Act, sentences like Sonny’s are the wrong they were trying to right. He had never done a day in prison and then got a mandatory life sentence as a ...
Nicknamed ‘the Rock,’ Connecticut’s Cheshire Correctional Institution is making a radical attempt to reform and rehabilitate 18 to 25-year old prisoners. Four years ago, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy toured Germany’s prison system while visiting the ...
Washington state ruled the application of the death penalty is racially biased and converted eight death penalty sentences to life in prison. The state of Washington struck down the death penalty last Thursday. The state’s ...
Yoga may not only help with anxiety, stress and symptoms of depression but may also help improve memory and concentration and decrease paranoid or obsessive thoughts. Researchers studied a surprising way for prison inmates to ...
A Nova Scotia jail has joined the U.S. prison strike that has lasted just over a week and rallied inmates into hunger, work, or commissary goods strikes. Despite publicity challenges, prison advocates have confirmed small ...
A Detroit man, Darrell Siggers, was released from prison after 34 years of a wrongful conviction. 54-year-old Siggers was incarcerated at the Wayne County Jail for a 1984 murder he always maintained he never committed. ...
The FBI wants to know what your tattoos mean. The federal security agency is trying to identify the meanings of tattoos and how the tattoos “map out people’s relationships and identify their beliefs” as the ...
A report from The Appeal revealed that inmates in Florida are dying at record rates. With a total of 97,794 prisoners in Florida state custody, 428 inmates died in 2017 and as at June 2018, ...
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and while there are many disturbing factors that have contributed to this trend, one of the least-discussed is the complex system of parole and ...
Rapper Meek Mill, real name Robert Rihmeek Williams, famous for songs including “Dreams and Nightmares” and chart-topping hits such as “Young & Gettin’ It,” is currently serving a two to four year prison sentence for ...
An article from The Vera Institute of Justice says an increasing number of states are working to pass legislation to restore felon voting rights. Florida alone could restore voting rights for over one million people ...
Texas inmates donated more than $53,000 to charity to help with hurricane relief efforts. (The Free Thought Project, by Matt Agorist) Houston, TX — Showing that bad laws actually put good people behind bars, inmates serving time in Texas ...
Prison labor camps: they thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants. (Reveal News By Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter) The worst day of Brad McGahey’s life was the day a ...
Marijuana decreases crime: dispensaries actually increase the ‘walkability score’ of a neighborhood which deters criminal activity. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” – Jeff Sessions, Attorney General “I reject the idea that America will be a better ...
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