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Supreme Court Will Not Hear Case About Native American Prisoners
By Derrick Broze On Monday, Supreme Court Justices decided not to address an appeal from Native American inmates who are fighting for their religious right to grow their hair long in Alabama prisons....
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Too Poor to Make Bail? They’ll Cage You for That: Lawsuit Exposes Horrors of...
By Lily Dane A Texas jail has been caging people who are too poor to afford bail, according to a new lawsuit. Harris County Jail – the largest in Texas and the third largest in the US – is accused of...
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In Police State USA, Parents are Now Sending their Kids to Summer Camp — In...
By William N. Grigg Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a relentless self-promoter who christened himself “The World’s Toughest Sheriff,” has invited Phoenix-area parents to send their grade...
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Feds Say Prisons Bring Economic Benefits to Communities, But it’s all a Pack...
By Justin Gardner While the myth of ‘American exceptionalism’ continues to plague the thoughts of politicians and TV infotainment “news” channels, it behooves us to recall some actual things in which...
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U.S. Female Prison Population Has Grown 800 Percent and Nobody Is Talking...
By Clarice Palmer Holly Harris may wear cowboy boots to work, but the Kentucky mom and Executive Director for the US Justice Action Network (USJAN) is far from your average southerner. This past...
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Abandoned California Prison Sold to Medical Marijuana Company
By Joshua Krause The city council for Coalinga, California recently passed two marijuana measures, the latter of which is rife with irony. First, they voted 4-1 in April to allow marijuana cultivation...
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Ten Year Study Finds Nearly 7,000 People Died in Texas Jails and Police Custody
By Alek Hidell A new report on Texas in-custody deaths, released by the Texas Justice Initiative, showed that nearly 7,000 inmates died between 2005 and 2015. The study compiled data reported by law...
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Prisoners Across U.S. Organizing For Nationwide Strike
By Derrick Broze As prisoners prepare for a nationwide prison strike, activists and supporters are descending on Columbus, Ohio for the Bend The Bars conference. On September 9, prisoners across the...
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Closing A Few Private Prisons Won’t Fix Mass Incarceration and Criminalization
By Derrick Broze A recent decision by the Department of Justice to close certain private prisons has been hailed by some as a victory, but does it go far enough to address the root of prison...
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Justice Dept Announces it Will End Use of For-Profit Prisons … Prison Stocks...
By Claire Bernish In a stunning turn of events, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it will no longer use private prisons to incarcerate federal prisoners, deeming the notorious...
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DoJ Deals Massive Blow to Debtors’ Prisons, Poor People Can’t be Held When...
By Justin Gardner Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) made the shocking statement that it will no longer use private prisons to incarcerate federal prisoners, saying they are less safe...
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Entrepreneur Takes Activism to New Level, Spends $15K Bailing People Out of...
By John Vibes This week, local businessman Willie Wilson is going to the Cook County Jail with $15,000 to bail out inmates with misdemeanor charges. “I’m not doing this for political reasons. These are...
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Damian Marley Is Converting A California Prison Into A Marijuana Farm
By Amanda Froelich You might know Damian Marley for his soulful reggae music and for the fact that he’s Bob Marley’s son, but recently, the artist has made headlines because of a new business venture....
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Australia Considers Precrime Indefinite Detention
By Kurt Nimmo Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has introduced legislation that would keep prisoners convicted of terrorism offenses locked up indefinitely. Terrified of #terrorism #Australia...
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Media Silent As Guards, Inmates Unite In “Largest US Prison Strike Of Its Kind”
By Alice Salles On September 9, inmates at Holman Prison in Alabama launched a major 12-state prison strike to protest the U.S. prison system’s labor practices and living conditions. The number of...
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Prison Food Contractors Exposed For Funding Efforts To Ensure People Are...
By John Vibes Food Services of America, a subsidiary of Services Group of America is funding efforts to keep marijuana illegal. It makes sense, considering that a vast majority of America’s prisoners...
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State Bans Best Selling Motivational Book From Prisons
By John Vibes In prison, reading is one of the few productive things that a person is allowed to do, and oftentimes, inmates seek out motivational or self-help books to better themselves and help...
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Trump Admin Scraps Plan To Abandon For-Profit Prisons — Stocks Hit Record High
By Jack Burns The Trump Administration’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a one paragraph memo to the Federal Bureau of Prisons Thursday, reversed an Obama administration directive to phase out and...
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Town Busted Running “Debtor’s Prison” Must Pay $680K, Sheriff Told to Resign
By Jack Burns Alexander, AL — The Southern Poverty Law Center has reached a $680,000 settlement in its lawsuit against the Alabama city of Alexander and its police chief Willie Robinson. The settlement...
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Federal Prisons Caught Bonusing Themselves Millions Despite Epic Abuse And...
By Justin Gardner If mass incarceration, the War on Drugs, and mandatory minimum sentencing were not enough of an affront to society, it was recently reported that top federal prison officials received...
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