VIDEO: After Mass Hunger Strikes and Lawsuits, Prisoners Force California to...
A legal settlement that may have major implications in prisons nationwide has claimed victory for prisoners' rights. California has agreed to greatly reduce the use of solitary confinement. The post...
View ArticleOccupy Radio: SPLC Tackles the Private Probation Industry
Thousands of Americans have been involved in unconstitutional imprisonment. Here is one aggressive campaign by the Southern Poverty Law Center that's working to put the Private Probation industry out...
View ArticleVIDEO: Is Oklahoma Set to Execute an Innocent Man? Inside the Case of Richard...
Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Richard Glossip on Wednesday night. But as time is running out, is the state about to kill an innocent man? Democracy Now discusses the case. The post VIDEO: Is...
View ArticleSanders, Grijalva, Ellison, Rush Introduce Bills Banning Private Prisons
Private prisons are profiting from incarcerating more and more people. Finally, several progressive members of Congress have submitted bills to do something about this travesty. The post Sanders,...
View ArticleVIDEO: A Brief History of the Mass Incarceration of Black Americans
"One in every three African American men will be sent to prison in their lifetime." This video feature discusses the incarceration of black Americans and their relationship with the U.S. criminal...
View ArticleShift Billions in Prison Spending to Teachers, Says Education Secretary
Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, wants to stop the “school-to-prison pipeline.” His solution: to shift a share of local and state correctional spending on nonviolent offenders to teachers salaries....
View Article‘A Pipeline Straight to Jail’
With a failing American educational system, the government’s abandonment of poor families and children living in blighted communities end up in prison. But how do they get from that child to that...
View ArticleThousands of Drug War Prisoners Are Going Home Early Thanks to Years of...
The Justice Department recently announced its plan to reduce overcrowding in prisons and to provide relief to people who received harsh drug war sentences. And the result: 6,000 people in federal...
View ArticleSanders Goes Where Clinton Won’t: Calling for the Abolition of the Death Penalty
"The time is now for the U.S. to end capital punishment.” While Bernie Sanders knows he is in a “minority position” on the issue, he has gone somewhere Hillary Clinton won't even think of going. The...
View ArticleDeputies Charged with Beating Inmate to Death and Falsifying Report
Two former deputy jailers were charged with violating a detainee’s civil rights after the state medical examiner’s preliminary report cited “jail beating.” Both face life in prison for depriving him of...
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