Tag: prisons

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.

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.

Families recount painful conversations with loved ones inside detention centers and join advocates demanding action that detainees be protected against spread of the coronavirus.

Private prisons are profiting from America's mass incarceration problem.

Inmates inside Florida's prisons are fighting back against "modern day slavery."

"Prisons create and ensure an underclass."

Bill Moyers reflects on the culture of cruelty in American politics.

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.

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.

Ultimately, the social cost of mass incarceration is 11 times higher than total spent on the corrections system itself.