Prisons

Sessions revives private prisons, slamming door on justice

March 6, 2017 By Jesse Jackson

With Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Trump’s divisive racial rhetoric is about to turn into policy.

Landmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons

September 3, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.

A letter of hope to a nephew in prison

February 10, 2015 By Juan Lopez

It's encouraging that a good number of people are in favor of reforming the criminal "justice" system, including the prisons.

We remember Rubin Hurricane Carter

May 6, 2014 By Frank Chapman

Brother Carter's struggle was our struggle, what they did to him they did to us because racism is the common thread that twines our lives together.

War zone extends to Colombian prisons

October 31, 2013 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Negotiators at peace talks in Cuba between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) are discussing political prisoners as part of their current agenda item.