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Another 6-Yr.-Old in Handcuffs? Harry Belafonte on Child Incarceration
by Channing Kennedy on April 24 2012, 8:29AM
In light of Florida kindergartener Salecia Johnson’s classroom arrest, here’s more from our interview session with Harry Belafonte, in which he discusses his fight to end child incarceration.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Harry Belafonte, Schools & Youth
As Supreme Court Listens, Here’s a Look at What It Means to Lock Kids Away for Life
by Hatty Lee on March 21 2012, 9:43AM
The Supreme Court is weighing whether it’s fair to lock juvenile offenders convicted of murder away for life without a chance to reform. Here’s why race matters.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Jails Paid Per Prisoner? That’s Perverse, Say NOLA Advocates
by Noelle de la Paz on December 1 2011, 9:45AM
Orleans Parish Prison receives money based on how many inmates are detained each day. And go figure, it’s got the largest county jail per capita of any major U.S. city.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Calif. Prison Hunger Strike Ends at Pelican Bay, Continues Elsewhere
by Jorge Rivas on October 14 2011, 3:44PM
Prisoner advocates say a three-week hunger strike protesting long-term solitary confinement has ended at the “supermax” Pelican Bay. But reports say it’s ongoing in at least two other state prisons.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Prisoner Health Deteriorates as California Clamps Down on Strike
by Julianne Hing on October 13 2011, 10:13AM
One participating striker at Pelican Bay reportedly had to be taken to an Oregon hospital after suffering a heart attack
Topics: Criminal Justice
Arizona Now Charges Families $25 to Visit Loved Ones in State Prisons
by Jorge Rivas on September 6 2011, 11:46AM
Prisoner advocates consider this the latest frontier for in the billion-dollar private prison industry.
Topics: Criminal Justice
From Attica to Pelican Bay: A Brief History of Prison Rebellions
by Bryan Gerhart on July 27 2011, 10:00AM
With news that California’s prison hunger strike may have ended, we take a look back at seminal prison rebellions that have called for similar changes.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Thousands of CA Inmates Show Solidarity With Prison Hunger Strike
by Bryan Gerhart on July 8 2011, 11:13AM
Over 6,000 strikers are participating so in an effort that’s reached across counties and states to call for more humane treatment in some of the country’s harshest prison units.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Five Prison Reform Ideas Being Ignored on Capitol Hill
by Shani O. Hilton on July 8 2011, 10:20AM
There’s no shortage of ideas for fixing the damage done by decades of drug war.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Drug War
Evaluating the Drug War on Its 40th Birthday, by the Numbers
by Akiba Solomon, Stokely Baksh on June 17 2011, 11:40AM
Forty years and $1 trillion in, the war on drugs hasn’t worked—unless locking up a massive number of black and brown people was the plan all along.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Criminal Justice, Drug War
Supreme Court Demands California Release 30,000 Inmates
by Julianne Hing on May 24 2011, 9:32AM
Just how bad is the state’s prison overcrowding? More than 40 inmates had to share one toilet. And that’s just the beginning.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Mumia Abu-Jamal Gets New Sentencing Hearing
by Jamilah King on April 27 2011, 11:41AM
A U.S. Appeals court has ruled that the prolific writer and activist must be granted a new sentencing hearing within six months.
Topics: Criminal Justice
NAACP and Newt Gingrich Agree: Too Much Money for Prisons
by Asraa Mustufa on April 7 2011, 4:58PM
A bevy of conservative politicos line up alongside the NAACP to talk about criminal justice reform.
Topics: Criminal Justice
California’s Adult State Prisons, in Pictures
by Hatty Lee, Jamilah King on March 4 2011, 11:53AM
When it comes to California’s prisons, Josh Begley makes a big statement with simple visuals.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Georgia Prison Guards Arrested for Retaliatory Abuse of Inmate
by Julianne Hing on February 25 2011, 3:48PM
The fallout continues from last December’s massive prison strike.
Topics: Criminal Justice
NPR Investigation: Private Prison Companies Helped Write SB 1070
by Seth Freed Wessler on October 28 2010, 1:00PM
Industry saw model bill to create “enhanced opportunities” for driving profits.
Topics: ALEC, Criminal Justice, Immigration
Before SB 1070, Arizona Sold Prisons to Highest Bidders
by Jamilah King on August 25 2010, 11:18AM
Before SB 1070, lawmakers had all but turned the state’s prisons over to private companies. Now they’re getting cheated.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Groups Press Justice Department on Prison Rape
by Michelle Chen on August 18 2010, 11:23AM
Groups call for an end to the culture of impunity that looms over the incarcerated.
Topics: Criminal Justice, On Gender
For ICE Prisons, a Blank One-Year Progress Report
by Michelle Chen on August 6 2010, 10:45AM
Today marks one year since ICE promised to fix the detention system. So far, there’s little to celebrate.
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
Prison System Chains Women in Childbirth
by Michelle Chen on July 20 2010, 10:30AM
In many places around the country, it’s still legal to keep incarcerated women shackled while they go through labor.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Gender & Sexuality, On Gender
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