Tag: 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.
Protests Planned In Over 20 States To Expose ‘Slave-Like’ Conditions In...
Prisoners have had enough and are demanding fair pay for their labor.
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Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has...
The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply. But the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despite appointing every member of its board.
A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive...
Birds may have been burying Jeffrey pine seeds up high for thousands of years. But now that they’re sprouting, this new species of subalpine tree may change the playing field.