
In the modern legal system, the victim of the crime gets punished twice. In the case of a robbery, for…
In the modern legal system, the victim of the crime gets punished twice. In the case of a robbery, for…
Data provided by PrisonStudies.org is helping shed light on America’s incarceration problem, demonstrating that only the small archipelago of Seychelles, located…
We’ve been doing it for thousands of years. We brand someone a criminal, force him to submit at the point of…
Washington, D.C. — Holly Harris may wear cowboy boots to work, but the Kentucky mom and Executive Director for the…
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a new report concluding that in 2014, 16 percent of men between ages…
Their stories begin differently but end in the same place. Antoinette Frink, who holds a masters degree in school psychology,…
Springdale, AK – On Monday, an 18-year-old man wasarrested after filling a water cup with soda at an Arkansas McDonald’s. The incident began when…
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness fact that the United States imprisons a far larger percentage of…
The Senate is expected to take up legislation to reform federal mandatory minimum sentence laws, but the measure is stalled…
Ocala, FL — Lowell Correctional Institution in Florida is one of the largest women’s corrections facilities in the United States,…
The first wave of prison releases, under reforms put out by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, began last week. Approximately 6,000 federal…
Baltimore, MD — It was reported last week that over 250 Maryland corrections officers have been arrested since January of…
Even though the Black Lives Matter movement is clearly a form of group thought, it is proving to be uniquely…
http://democracynow.org – Four months ago, Samuel Harrell died at New York’s Fishkill Correctional Facility. At the time, officers claimed Harrell,…
Throughout the world, the U.S. prison system is often seen as inhumane and excessively large. The American prison system is so…
Chicago, IL – The Chicago Police’s CIA-style black site, Homan Square, has seen more people detained than died on 9/11…
Denver, CO — Last week, a Denver man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies, but not for stealing, committingfraud,…
Last year RT reported that overcrowded prisons were forcing the White House to think about victimless crime. The outlay for…
http://democracynow.org – This week President Obama has launched a major push to reform the country’s criminal justice system. On Monday,…
FBI evidence analysis of hair was used to convict many people, though the science that was used and presented as…
“Condoms could eventually be distributed to California prison inmates under a bill that moved forward in the state Senate on…