Governor Jerry Brown proposed to limit California’s overcrowded prisons by leasing more prison space. Brown’s proposal consisted of spending about $315 million next year to house...
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,...