Convicted of killing a woman while drink-driving, Locane served her time and spent the next five years as a model citizen, facing up to her crime and Read More
Mar 10, 2021
US prisons
Jan 21, 2021
Illinois poised to become first state to end wealth-based pre-trial detention
State passed Pre-trial Fairness Act which the governor, JB Pritzker, has long expressed his support forWhen Lavette Mayes was waiting for her trial, Read More
Jan 21, 2021
Illinois poised to become first state to end wealth-based pre-trial detention
State passed Pre-trial Fairness Act which the governor, JB Pritzker, has long expressed his support forWhen Lavette Mayes was waiting for her trial, Read More
Jan 09, 2021
A British judge said US prisons are dangerously inhumane. Sadly, she’s right | David Fathi
Britain refused a request to extradite Julian Assange because US prison conditions might make him suicidal. That’s damningWhat does it say about the Read More
Dec 11, 2020
America’s longest-serving marijuana prisoner freed after 31 years
Richard DeLisi, now 71, was sentenced to 90-year prison term in 1989 for marijuana trafficking, as part of era’s ‘war on drugs’A man believed to be Read More
Dec 10, 2020
Alabama sued by DoJ over ‘systematic’ violence in state prisons
State criticizes ‘brazen federal overreach’ after DoJ report details serious violence to which officials are ‘deliberately indifferent’The US Read More
Oct 15, 2020
‘It’s like slavery’ – Time, the shocking film about a family torn apart by the US jail industry
Sixty years for a bank robbery? In Louisiana, that’s practically routine for a black man. Director Garrett Bradley explains why she told one family’s Read More
Jun 14, 2020
‘White privilege’ is a distraction, leaving racism and power untouched | Kenan Malik
This is a transformational moment. Let’s use it to challenge structural injustice, not to elicit or wallow in guiltThe transformation has been Read More
Sep 04, 2019
Mentally ill US prisoner held in solitary lost ability to speak, lawsuit alleges
Tyquine Lee, 26, spent more than 22 hours a day in solitaryVirginia sued over Lee’s treatment at Red Onion state prisonA prisoner with a history of Read More
Sep 04, 2019
Mentally ill US prisoner held in solitary lost ability to speak, lawsuit alleges
Tyquine Lee, 26, spent more than 22 hours a day in solitaryVirginia sued over Lee’s treatment at Red Onion state prisonA prisoner with a history of Read More
Aug 30, 2019
From pecan pralines to ‘dots’ as currency: how the prison economy works
When economic freedoms are taken away, informal markets will always find new and ingenious ways to satisfy demand. By Richard DaviesWhen Wilbert Read More
Dec 21, 2018
Can Kushner’s work on the criminal justice overhaul save his reputation?
Some caution that while Jared Kushner deserves the credit he got, his reputation is doomed by conflicts of interest and a close relationship with the Read More