One month ago, a preventable death occurred once again at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla due to a prison heatwave. Adrienne Boulware passed away from the extreme heat ...

Amidst a heat wave in Madison, people who were once incarcerated in Wisconsin’s prison system and supporters gathered ...

A federal investigation has uncovered stunning violence, rampant sexual assaults, gang-run facilities and other startling conditions in an out-of-control Georgia state prison system, the U.S.

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I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics that are generated when one group of people — randomly assigned as “guards” — ...

For the second year, loved ones and advocates spoke before a legislative committee designed to curb violence and improve conditions within the Alabama prison system. Again, they described the inhumane ...

The pulverized face of Steven Davis tells a terrifying story of conditions inside Alabama state prisons – his eyes swollen shut, his bruised flesh a deep purple. “They beat him so badly his head was ...