Corrections Corporation of America's Loss Is Ohio's Gain
What happens when a prison for profit loses one of its main moneymakers? We're about to find out. The federal Bureau of Prisons announced last week that they would not renew their contract with...
View ArticleHow US Prison Officials Rubber-Stamped a CIA Torture Chamber
The CIA's chief interrogator called it "the closest thing he has seen to a dungeon." At the agency's COBALT detention site in Afghanistan – also known as the "Salt Pit" – detainees were kept in total...
View ArticleA Living Nightmare in America's Paradise
Imagine being charged with a crime, going to trial, being found not guilty by reason of insanity, but remaining behind bars for years. You are denied access to a psychiatrist to treat your serious...
View ArticleThis Prisoner's Note Isn't From Some Dystopian Dictatorship. It's From Texas.
Every day from dusk to dawn there's noise, banging, clanking, yelling, screaming. Everyday someone is getting hurt or hurting themselves. Everyday there's fire and floods and complete chaos &...
View ArticleA Most Unsurprising Riot
Originally posted on The Marshall Project. Life inside the infamous Willacy immigration prison. No one who has been to Willacy County Correctional Center or the other dozen private, for-profit...
View ArticleWill Nelson Mandela's Solitary Confinement Inspire Positive Change?
It's a short walk from my hotel here in Cape Town to the waterfront. From there you can see Robben Island, the notorious prison where Nelson Mandela and other freedom fighters were incarcerated during...
View ArticleAmerica's Mass Incarceration Habit Needs a Serious Fix
When I was growing up in East Flatbush, one of the toughest neighborhoods in Brooklyn, one of my very best friends was something else. He, let's call him MZ, could have had Hollywood on a string. He...
View ArticleHow Did a Lifelong Prison Sentence for an Iraq Vet Turn Into an Imminent...
Courtney Lockhart is an Iraqi war veteran now on Alabama's death row, but he shouldn't be. The jury that heard the prosecutor's request for his execution voted unanimously against it, opting instead...
View ArticleThe 'wHOLE' Truth Behind Solitary Confinement
On any given day in America there are 80,000 people in solitary settings, not counting youth in juvenile facilities and people in jails. With no evidence-based research of its effectiveness, solitary...
View ArticleEverything That Is Wrong With US Prisons in One Picture
A disturbing image hit the newswires this week, highlighting the barbaric conditions that are all too common in the American prison system. The photo shows a young prisoner in Georgia, who appears to...
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