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...
Between 1970–2008, our lock-up rate increased five hundred percent. The United States has more inmates and prisons than both Russia and China combined. We have approximately...
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...
