Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart appeared last night on 60 minutes to illustrate a growing problem with our prisons and jails, Dart shared videos recorded by...
Recidivism is a 10-letter word. When you first hear the word, it sounds like a disease. We know it is not a medical term, but it...
We are living in a world where up is down and down is up. For example, the United States has five percent of the world’s population...
Michael Douglas took aim at the U.S. prison system after winning an Emmy last night. Cameron Douglas is serving a nine-year sentence for drug related charges...
Prisonpath posted previously an article about “Sesame Street helps the Children of the Incarcerated.” The United States has the largest prison population in the world with...
Most inmates want and look forward to visits from family and friends. It is a brief chance for the inmate to see a loved one and...
A new documentary, “Outcasts: Surviving the Culture of Rejection,” explores the history of recidivism and what the writer and director of this documentary calls the culture...
In 2003, Martha Wright-Reed filed a petition asking the FCC to regulate the excessive inmate phone call rates. The petition was filed on behalf of inmate...
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, approximately 80,000 people are kept in solitary confinement in the United States. Although a number of the inmates are...
Updated 7/18/2013 – Approximately two thirds of the state’s 33 prisons are currently striking. It is estimated that the number of striking inmates, on hunger strike,...