Dayonn Davis was sentenced to five years in prison and 10 years of probation. The sentence was imposed for stealing a pair of black and white...
It is just common sense to keep pregnant women out of jail, who are waiting for their court date. Jails, unlike prisons, hold defendants waiting...
Last week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons dropped their controversial book restriction policy regarding books for inmates.The policy would have prohibited direct delivery of books from...
Washington University reported that prior estimates of annual incarceration costs of 80 billion is not even close to the actual price of our jails and prisons....
Photo-NBC Philadelphia’s oldest operating jail, House of Corrections, opened in 1927. Mayor Jim Kenney and Prisons Commissioner announced the closure of the jail by 2020, because...
Photo: Max Ortiz/Detroit News via AP Yes, Richard Philipps, an innocent Michigan man, was imprisoned for 45 years, for a crime that he did not commit....
In 2014, we reported that our jails were filled with the mentally ill. In 2014, California Channel 9 reported that one-third of the 3,000 inmates,...
In New Hampshire this week, Pres. Trump rolled out his new proposals to combat our drug crisis—including, the opioid epidemic. Unfortunately, major aspects of his drug...
A Vox article by German Lopez revealed; “When an inmate addicted to opioids is released from prison, his chances of a fatal overdose are massively elevated:...
The National Center for Health Statistics issued a preliminary report indicating more than 64,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016. The breakdown of this national calamity for...
