Despite California’s landmark sanctuary laws, state prisons are still cooperating with...

Jimmy McGovern’s hard-hitting drama is a brutally honest portrayal of a failed public service and gets everything right about prison life – minus the tedium.

Days after the official nationwide abolition of slavery in December 1865, Alabama made it illegal for Black farm employees to sell a long list of foods, including corn, rice, cotton and “animal of any kind.” Another law punished Black people for gathering in a “disorderly way,” one professor said in a Cornell Law Review article. Another for carrying a pistol. And whipping and branding were scrapped as penalties, while a new sentence was added: “hard labor for the county.”

A prison inmate at Minnesota Correctional Facility at Oak Park Heights, the five star maximum security prison where Derek Chauvin is being held, believes the convicted ex-cop is not safe with the general population.

Harvey Weinstein’s extradition to Los Angeles was delayed yet again after his legal team fought his transfer during a remote proceeding Monday afternoon. One of his attorneys said that Weinstein was scheduled for several critical health procedures — to treat his failing vision and “save his teeth” — and should be able to get them before extradition.

A lot of rights just vanish into the ether once you're incarcerated. Some of this makes sense. You have almost no privacy rights when being housed by the state. But rights don't disappear completely.

Drawing on her work in UK prisons, Manchester Metropolitan University's Kirstine Szifiris explains how philosophy can provide prisoners with the sense of growth essential to being human.

To get a feel for what it means to have 2.3 million Americans jailed or imprisoned, start scrolling through this infographic. As you scroll, the infographic presents some facts: There are more inca…

The U.S. government collects data on who’s dying in which jails around the country – but won’t let anyone see it. So, Reuters conducted its own tally.

While much of California shut down this spring, Robbie Hall stitched masks for 12 hours a day in a sewing factory at a women’s prison in Chino. For several weeks, Hall and other women said, they churned out masks by the thousands but were forbidden from wearing them.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute receives sponsorship from US corporations using prison workers paid as little as 23 cents an hour. In some states, prisoners who refuse to work are put in solitary confinement.

Whistleblower allegations of forced hysterectomies leave troubling questions and reveal a system ripe for abuse

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s ailing health condition has led him to miss a hearing at a UK court this week, raising further concerns about the state of his health and strengthening calls for him to be released.

A former pastor from Tennessee was convicted of raping his adopted teenage daughter. The usual sentence for a crime like this is a minimum of 72 years. But 41-year-old David Richards was given only 12 years of prison time by a Knox County judge. Giving the sexual predator less than a quarter of the actual sentencing for a crime of this nature, was attributed by the judge to the man's religious leadership as well as the outpouring support he received from his parishioners, reported Mirror.

As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work. Sometimes they earn pennies an hour, or nothing at all, making masks and hand sanitizer to help guard others from the coronavirus. Those same men and women have been cut off from family visits for weeks, but they get charged up to $25 for a 15-minute phone call — plus a surcharge every time they add credit.

On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to purchase a smartphone—not an insignificant task for someone who’d just completed a sentence, but Layla was lucky to have a friend who could buy one for her. She says she was at home in bed a few days later when the app she had been mandated to install under the terms of her release went off unexpectedly, the high-pitched warning alarm blaring as it sent a notification to her parole officers telling him that she was not, in fact, at home.

Prison Economy… the economy in prison is basically just a mirror reflection on that of the streets. Instead of paper money and debit cards this economy still functions on the old platform of a barter system. The trading of goods for other goods or services...

ON NEW YEAR’S Eve, as personal reflections on the last decade flooded in, Chelsea Manning’s account tweeted that she had spent 77.76 percent of her time since 2009 in jail. That same day, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer publicly released a letter from late last year accusing the United States of submitting Manning to treatment that is tantamount to torture.

A man from Alabama who served 36 years in prison for stealing $50.75 from a bakery will soon be released, according to reports. In 1983, Alvin Kennard, now 58, was convicted of first-degree robbery in connection with the January 24, 1983 theft at Highlands Bakery and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, under Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act. Court papers show $50.75 was stolen in the incident, AL.com reported.