Tag: prisons
In a Texas prison, Kwaneta cultivated a menopause support network from...
The incarcerated population is getting older, but correctional facilities lag in menopause care. Kwaneta Harris is working to fill the gaps in women's prisons.
‘We’re broken’: As federal prisons run low on food and toilet...
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
Social distancing is not an option for people in prison and...
Families recount painful conversations with loved ones inside detention centers and join advocates demanding action that detainees be protected against spread of the coronavirus.
Mass incarceration: An American problem
Private prisons are profiting from America's mass incarceration problem.
Florida Inmates start month-long ‘laydown’ to protest ‘modern day slavery’
Inmates inside Florida's prisons are fighting back against "modern day slavery."
Plantations were prisons: Mobilizing for the Aug. 19 Millions for Prisoners...
"Prisons create and ensure an underclass."
Divest From Prisons, Invest in People—What Justice for Black Lives Really...
Instead of addressing the roots of drug addiction, mental illness, and poverty, we’ve come to accept policing and incarceration as catch-all solutions. It’s time for a change.
“End Modern Slavery!”
Inmates in prison are given opportunities to perform jobs for money in prison, however ,without getting paid anything close to living wages, they are released without the money to find housing and wind up homeless or living in shelters, making them more likely to re-offend.
The True Cost of Mass Incarceration Exceeds $1 Trillion
Ultimately, the social cost of mass incarceration is 11 times higher than total spent on the corrections system itself.
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States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.