New York's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is reinterpreting statutes governing where sex offenders can live post incarceration to keep scores of them behind bars past their release dates.
Since February 2014, DOCCS has been citing a 2005 law—restricting many sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of ...
The new medical facility for prisoners in Stockton, California, run by the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), was supposed to help correct the systemic problems CDCR has in providing adequate medical, dental and mental health care to prisoners.
But what good is a shiny new facility if the ...
It’s widely accepted that incarceration—with its inherent violence, poor medical care, inadequate nutrition and exposure to infectious diseases— can be a life-threatening experience for anyone who’s forced to endure it. But a new study says incarceration has a long-term impact on mortality, as well—especially on males—that makes them more than ...
A group of prisoners in Germany has accomplished what American prisoners have long been prohibited from doing: They formed a labor union for incarcerated workers, to advocate for minimum wage pay so they can earn enough for a greater chance at successful reentry after their release. The GG/BO (Gefangenengewerkschaft/Bundesweite Organisation) ...
Chinese prisoners have used a novel, if not entirely secure, method of reporting human rights abuses, by stashing handwritten notes in the products they are forced to make inside prison sweatshops.
Accounts of former prisoners held in Chinese labor camps have described long work hours and brutal abuse at the ...
Like another jail detainee more than seven years before him, Joshua Grose died while strapped into a restraint chair at the York County Detention Center in South Carolina.
In the early morning hours of October 12, 2013, following his arrest for allegedly killing both his stepmother and a neighbor by ...
Government accountability advocates have called for private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group to be subject to open records laws – including the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) – to ensure they are accountable to the public. This is especially important considering that ...
An understaffed, poorly-designed prison in Ontario, Canada has been under close scrutiny over the past three years after a prisoner serving a 165-day sentence was bludgeoned to death on Halloween night by a possibly intoxicated cellmate with a history of violent attacks on other prisoners.
Adam Kargus, 29, was two ...
About two dozen immigrants’ rights advocates picketed outside the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on April 10, 2014, protesting the Foundation’s investments in the GEO Group, the second-largest private prison company in the U.S.
The demonstrators urged the Gates Foundation – whose co-chairman, Microsoft founder ...
In May 2014, New Jersey’s State Commission of Investigation (SCI) concluded a “broad-based” probe into the state’s bail bond industry for allowing criminal defendants to get out of jail with lower upfront costs and weekly or monthly payment plans, a law enforcement source told the Newark Star-Ledger.
“You have to ...
