In a ground breaking decision, U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison ruled that Texas state corrections were aware of the dangerous and lethal heat risks in their...
Photo–LA Times The parole hearing of the century will be decided this afternoon.A parole board will decide whether to grant O.J. Simpson parole. Parole is defined...
Rick Wershe, known as “White Boy,”was sentenced at 17 to life without parole.He was Michigan’s longest incarcerated juvenile convicted of a nonviolent offense. He was found...
By:Irving Schattner Psychotherapist in Private Practice at Counseling Center For Growth Feelings are separate from thoughts or beliefs. They describe our internal state of being and...
Otto Warmbier (Photo:AP) On June 19, 2017 Otto Warmbier, tragically died in the United States from tortuous treatment that he suffered while held in a North...
Will prisons ever open up to journalists? Too often, public officials have the final say on how much the public knows about what happens in America’s...
The United States has 25% of the world’s inmates and only 5% of the world’s population. A major cause of our incarceration crisis lies...
President Trump issued an executive order directing immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to locate and lockup undocumented immigrants. Ice’s new policy included imprisoning undocumented immigrants without...
Drawing–ThinkProgress.Org Parole: a conditional release of a prisoner who has served part of a sentence and who remains under the control of and in the legal...