Opponents of mass incarceration have notched several small but significant victories by successfully pressuring backers of the private prison industry to divest almost $60 million from Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, the two largest private prison companies in the United States. Both firms trade on the ...
by Joe Watson and Matt Clarke
Being pregnant is stressful – just ask any woman who has been pregnant. Incarceration adds to that stress and removes support systems, so prisoners face problems during their pregnancy, birthing and postpartum recovery that are difficult for outsiders to imagine.
The situation can be ...
Prison reform advocates have long since stressed the importance of strong connections between incarcerated offenders and their families in order to lower recidivism rates. But now, it's the prisoners who are working to strengthen everyone's family tree.
Nearly 2,300 prisoners in Utah, Idaho and Arizona are volunteering for the Church ...
Blame Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton or any former president who has abused his pardon power and made it politically inconvenient for future presidents to give clemency to those who deserve it.
Blame the career prosecutors in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) who get the first look at clemency applications-and ...
In return for, well... nothing, the sun-kissed small town of Eloy, Arizona, is getting paid by the federal government.
Already home to an immigrant detention facility about an hour southeast of Phoenix, Eloy recently became the beneficiary of nearly a half-million dollars for simply managing the contract of another prison ...
As soon as he arrived at Salinas Valley State Prison in northern California, Alan Ager believed his life was in danger.
"The very day they let him into the yard, he was filing complaints, 'Get me the hell out of here,'" said Ager's son, Daniel. "'This is not safe. I'm ...
A purportedly non-profit organization run by a father-and-son team that operated methadone clinics and so-called “sober houses” across New York City faced indictments in October 2014 for stealing millions of dollars in public funds and fraudulent insurance claims.
Alan Brand, 64, and his son Jason, 35, who ran Narco Freedom ...
Legislation in California, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September 2014, allows prisoners in the state’s 34 adult correctional facilities access to condoms.
With the signing of Assembly Bill 999 – also known as the Prisoner Protections for Family and Community Health Act – California became the third ...
If Oklahoma was hoping to establish a tradition or trend of botched executions, it brought in the right people to carry them out.
Just days after overseeing a disturbing execution at Arizona’s Florence prison complex in July 2014, former warden Lance Hetmer was hired as a special assistant to Oklahoma ...
In the summer of 2014, a surge of tens of thousands of immigrant refugees from Central America brought unprecedented attention to the incarceration of families and unaccompanied children in so-called residential centers – many run by for-profit prison companies – as they sought asylum in the United States.
Human rights ...
