Michael Gibson-Light, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona School of Sociology has reported after conducting research at an Arizona State prison on prison labor...
The South Carolina Department of Corrections has imposed the most extensive and harshest use of solitary confinement as a punishment for inmates using Facebook. The...
Yesterday, Teresa Juidice started day one of her fifteen month sentence. Based on my personal experience, she will be shell shocked. Her...
The American Civil Liberties Union issued a report in 2013 about elderly inmates. The elderly inmate population has increased 1300 percent since the early 1980’s. The...
Based on personal experience and observation, the prison holiday experience is bleak and dismal. Despite their tough demeanor, the young inmates are affected the most. When...
Before we can discuss what jail is like, you need to understand the differences between a state prison and a jail. Most people on the outside...
In 2006, two guards were attacked by inmates at California’s High Desert State Prison. The warden ordered a full lockdown which restricted all African Americans in...
On July 18th, the US Sentencing Commission elected to give 46,000 federal inmates serving excessive sentences for drug charges the ability to file motions for reduced...
Inmate Review – Orange is the New Black We have discussed, the realism of prison life on the hit show, “Orange is the New Black.” The...
We discussed on June 10th, the realism of prison life on the hit show, “Orange is the New Black.” The second season’s first episode revealed again...
