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NY Inmates Left Behind the Escape Suffered Gitmo Style Retribution
By Heather Callaghan While America turned wide eyes to the excitement of the “manhunt” after two inmates escaped Clinton Correctional Facility this summer, a different kind of terror took place out of...
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The US Prison System Is Actually Larger than Soviet Gulags
By Joshua Krause Many Americans are quite convinced that they live in one of the freest nations on the planet. Even if they don’t think that we are the freest, they still believe that our population...
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Alabama Judge Offers Deal to Defendants: Give Blood or Go to Jail
By Joshua Krause Even though debtors prisons have been outlawed in the United States since 1833, the practice has made a resurgence in recent years. Sometimes these arrests are driven by unscrupulous...
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How the Prison State Destroys Families, 1 in 8 Poor Children have a Parent...
By Justin Gardner The first wave of prison releases, under reforms put out by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, began last week. Approximately 6,000 federal prisoners convicted of nonviolent...
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Prison Inmates Charged for Jail Stay, Left Buried in Debt When they Get Out
By John Vibes Did you know that people who end up in prison for a variety of different reasons have a very good chance of being charged a fee for every day that they stay behind bars as if they were...
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Horrific Report: At Largest US Women’s Prison, Inmates Forced To Have Sex For...
By John Vibes Lowell Correctional Institution in Florida is one of the largest women’s corrections facilities in the United States, and it is also notorious for being one of the most corrupt and...
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4 Innocent Native Americans Jailed For 18 Years, Set Free – But Only After...
By John Vibes Four innocent Native American men have been set free from prison this week after they agreed not to sue the city or the state for the wrongful conviction and the unnecessary time behind...
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1 in 36 Americans Are Tied up in the Prison System… And That’s a 20-Year Low
By Carey Wedler Over the last several years, the United States has earned the troublesome accolade of being the most incarcerated population in the world. Nearly every fourth person behind bars...
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Nebraska Is Torturing Incarcerated Youth for Having Too Many Books, Passing...
By Carey Wedler A report released by the Nebraska American Civil Liberties Union this week reveals the state’s extensive use of solitary confinement for children across multiple juvenile detention...
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Due Process is Dead: A Staggering 95% of All Inmates in America Have Never...
By Claire Bernish In the Land of the Free, one-quarter of the entire planet’s prison population, some 2.2 million people, currently languish behind bars; yet, an astonishing number of them — around 2...
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Prison Town Selling Its Jails to Grow Cannabis to Save their Economy — And...
By Justin Gardner A tiny California desert town is making a drastic change to reverse its downward spiral and embrace an enlightened future. For 24 years, Adelanto tried unsuccessfully to sustain its...
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REPORT: Native Americans Account for Disproportionate Amount of Prison...
By Derrick Broze A new report details how Montana is sending more people to prison than it releases, with Native Americans making up a disproportionate share of the prison population. A new report has...
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“Made In America”– How These 7 Popular Companies Are Exploiting Prisoners And...
By Brianna Acuesta The prison-industrial complex: some may have heard of it, but this term is still widely unknown amongst the masses despite its huge effect on the American economy. This complex is...
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City Had to Stop Arresting Actual Criminals Because They Filled Up Jail with...
By Justin Gardner Greene County, MO – The epidemic of mass incarceration is coming back to bite authorities in one American city. Because the Greene County jail is completely full, Springfield (pop....
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Media Silent as US Announces Unprecedented Move to End Drug War
By Claire Bernish Slipping by virtually unnoticed, the United States made a surprising move last week toward entirely ending the contentious and wholly ineffective War on Drugs. With the approach of...
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REPORT: Native American Girls Have Highest Rate of Incarceration
By Derrick Broze New statistics show that American Indian and Native Alaskan girls account for a disproportionate amount of the population in the juvenile justice system. According to the U.S. Office...
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Drug War is Crumbling: Town Converts Prison into Cannabis Grow Facility
By Justin Gardner In our fight to end the drug war, there may be no greater symbolism than a prison being turned into a cannabis grow facility. That is likely to happen in Coalinga, where the city...
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Why New York Prison Guards Can Get Away With Almost Anything
By Carey Wedler New York prisons are increasingly notorious for their corruption, brutality, and incompetence. Last year, two convicted murderers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in...
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CA Board Of Supervisor’s Candidate Slams “Prison Industrial Complex,” Drug War
By Brandon Turbeville Candidate for Napa County Board of Supervisors, District 2, James Hinton, drew quite a bit of attention to himself for his staunch opposition to GMOs in Napa Valley. Now, Hinton...
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White House Admits That Locking People in Cages for Victimless Crimes is...
By Matt Agorist On Saturday, economists in U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration released a report detailing the adverse effects on the economy derived from locking non-violent drug offenders...
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