Prisons

Immigrant detainee hunger strikes spread amid COVID-19 danger

April 23, 2020 By John Bachtell

Despite mounting pressure in the prisons and from courts and public protests, ICE has mostly sat on its hands.

Black youth stage Emancipation Day protest for D.C. inmates amid COVID-19 crisis

April 20, 2020 By Jamal Rich

Emancipation Day protests have a new meaning in the age of COVID-19.

Coronavirus threatens to spread ‘like wildfire’ through U.S. prisons

April 10, 2020 By John Bachtell

Rights advocates say that unless the prison population is drastically reduced the contagion will get out to the general public.

California, facing COVID-19, moves to release “low-risk” inmates

April 7, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

Efforts are intensifying to secure the release of inmates nearing the end of their sentences, serving terms for nonviolent offenses, or at high risk for the virus because of age and/or health status.

More rehabilitation, less incarceration: How about votes for inmates?

October 16, 2019 By Jesse Jackson

They know better than most that while there are some truly violent people that deserve incarceration, the vast majority need a hand up, not another shackle of more debt, a bad record, a bleaker future.