CNN–Money Photo In 2009, Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to masterminding the biggest financial scam in financial history ($65 billion). Since Madoff went to prison, two famous...
Solitary confinement is still a controversial subject in Texas and throughout the United States.Texas prison officials call solitary confinement–administration segregation.Texas officials argue that solitary confinement is...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced last week that we are returning to the prosecutor policies of the drug wars of the 1980’s-1990’s. He has authorized federal...
Photo–Business Insider In August 2016, before Trump became our president and fired Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, Yates stated that the Obama administration was starting the...
Reuters Photo For the last four years, our articles have focused on the many problems of our American jails and prisons. The United States has the...
Since 2010, the Los Angeles jail’s population has increased almost 50 percent. Almost every inmate, in this latest increase of inmates, has addiction and mental health...
Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was incarcerated at the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Massachusetts. Hernandez hanged himself inside his cell. He was serving...
Arkansas was scheduled this past Monday to execute the first of eight men convicted of different murders, when the US Supreme Court refused to reverse the...
The Los Angeles County jail system, composed of eight facilities, is the largest jail complex in the United states. The jails are supervised by the Los...
Americans are finally realizing that incarceration is not the answer for addicted offenders. The United States has 25% of the world’s inmates and only 5% of...
