Tag: prison

The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies have already begun to impact the state.

Outrage and investigations follow the death of Robert Brooks in a violent incident at a New York prison.

After over two decades without charge, a Guantánamo detainee is repatriated, raising urgent questions about justice and human rights.

A part of the reproductive justice framework and the driving force is to keep families together, independent of government control. 

New York Times brought the racial disparity to light in 2016 when it reported “that fewer than one in six Black or Hispanic men was released at his first hearing, compared with one in four white men.”

As it happens, flagging interest in Guantánamo has coincided with an eerie larger cultural phenomenon—a turn away from history and memory.

This lawsuit seeks not only to compensate those who have been exploited, but also to dismantle a system that generates an estimated $450 million annually from this coerced labor.

Profiting from pain—the harsh reality of privatized prison healthcare in America.

Companies in the database are assigned a "harm score" based on their responsibility for and responsiveness to their human rights violations.

A revival of an Obama-era goal, President Joe Biden announced the launch of a formal review of the U.S. military prison at...