‘Don’t Do Drugs:’ Inmate Dies From Opioid Withdrawal Under Controversial ACH...
The family of a deceased man who was incarcerated at Kentucky’s Bourbon County Jail has filed a federal lawsuit against the county, jail officials, and the private medical contractor Advanced...
View ArticleJustice Department Has No Idea If Their Incarceration Alternatives Work
The Justice Department is not evaluating the performance of pretrial diversion programs, residential re-entry centers, and home confinement, according to congressional testimony from the Government...
View ArticleClik here to view.
While Prisons Ban Reading Material, Unsearched Guards Walk in With Real...
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Prisons in New York state are rolling out a program that will ban most reading material and end inmate care packages from families. The program is currently being tested at three...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Florida Prison Strike Focuses on Prison Slavery, Fair Treatment
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Prisoners in Florida went on a statewide strike on Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday this week, after having issued a list of demands in December. Operation PUSH, as the action is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poverty: American Style
In December last year, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, issued a statement on his 15-day fact-finding mission of some of the U.S.’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mass Incarceration of Blacks Started Long Before the War on Drugs
Henry Minter was working as a farm laborer in Georgia in the 1870s when he met Mary Dotson, a young black servant girl. The couple never married – which would have been illegal at the time – but they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Conspiracy Theories: Jeffrey Epstein’s Uniquely American Death in Jail
The United States holds more of its population in prisons and jails than any other country in the world. Suicide is one of the biggest causes of death in U.S. jails and hit a high of 50 deaths for...
View ArticleWhistleblower Chelsea Manning Spends Her Birthday Imprisoned
Military whistleblower Chelsea Manning spent her 32nd birthday behind bars yesterday for continuing to refuse to testify against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange. She has been in prison since May...
View ArticleGlen Ford: Having Not Yet Won Any Real Power Over Police, This Is No Time for...
New York City (BAR) — The awesome power of massed, militant people in motion has been manifest since the Memorial Day murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Much of the world now knows Floyd’s name;...
View ArticlePrivate Prison Simulation Game Goes Viral on Apple App Store
A new game called “Prison Empire Tycoon” is going viral. Released in late May, it has risen to become the current number one strategy game in Apple’s App Store and has been among the top 20 most...
View ArticleNew Report Details the Shocking Growth of the Prison Exploitation Across the US
A new report from prison abolition group Worth Rises has exposed the extent to which corporate America profits from the desperation of the incarcerated. The 132-page study, entitled “The Prison...
View ArticleLee Camp: How to End the US Prison State Quick and Easy
Princeton, New Jersey (Scheerpost) — A few weeks ago I covered the mind-blowing facts about American prisons that should make anyone and everyone rethink/detest/abhor the entire institution. Now, I...
View ArticleAmerican Gulag: Inside the U.S.’ Massive Prison System, with Chris Hedges
For a supposedly developed, democratic nation, the United States locks up an extraordinary number of its citizens. Close to one quarter of the world’s prison population is in the United States. Even...
View ArticleClik here to view.
While Prisons Ban Reading Material, Unsearched Guards Walk in With Real...
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Prisons in New York state are rolling out a program that will ban most reading material and end inmate care packages from families. The program is currently being tested at three...
View Article