Prisons

Across the country, incarcerated men and women’s lives are in danger as a result of facilities’ environmental violations.

Student organizers who successfully fought for the divestment say Columbia is the first American university to pull its investments from the private prison industry.

But her future remains uncertain.

New York will be the largest prison system in the country to end the practice for youth inmates.

The legacy of “tough on crime” policies lives on

After serving federal time, former NYC police commissioner Bernard Kerik has a revelation about mandatory minimums and the prison system

The ACLU’s new campaign aims to put pressure on Global-Tel-Link, one of the two large companies that continue to charge high prison phone call rates despite the FCC’s August ruling to reduce them.

Prisons are big business in upstate New York, but many are closing. Milk Not Jails is working to promote a new industry in the state’s shifting rural landscape.

There’s a growing–and surprising–call to reform mandatory sentencing minimums.