The Department of Justice announced that it will phase out its use of private prisons. There's no need for them with the declining population of federal prisoners.
The prison inmate phone call business is a multi-billion dollar industry that has been gouging families and those locked up behind bars for years. FCC…
Is this a political move or is the reality of Black men's incarceration a deep concern for Hilary Clinton?
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A new report from MetricMaps details a shocking statistic — in 16 states in the nation, there are more people locked up in correctional facilities than those…
The case of Joan (pronounced “Jo-Anne”) Little helped bring awareness to sexual buse of women in prison. On this day in 1975, Ms. Little became…
Overcrowding has long plagued Chicago’s Cook County jail and Commissioner Larry Suffredin, (D-13th), has proposed using taxpayer dollars to bail out low-level inmates who are…
From TheGrio.com: Last week, federal officials announced a decrease in our nation’s jail population for the first time since 1982.
