Immigrants held at GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark are on a labor and hunger strike, refusing to perform jobs that keep the place running. Daily demonstrations take place by families and supporters, at the private prison, financed by Citizens Bank
Some have waited years for a conviction review. Their letters paint a picture of a review process rife with roadblocks, especially for applicants who didn’t have lawyers.
With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest. Today in Washington, DC the order is out - lock up the unhoused.
From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the US is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion
Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.
The unforgiving reality of cash bail transforms “innocent until proven guilty” into “guilty until proven wealthy.”
On prison organizing: Two reviews
A compassionate documentary told with elegiac brushstrokes, Daughters tracks the generational trauma of incarcerated fathers.
Prisons serve as giant holding pens for people our society has come to see as subhuman. Sing Sing resists such dehumanization through a tender portrait of the creative capabilities and emotional lives of prison actors.
More people are serving life sentences without parole in Pennsylvania than almost anywhere else in America. An increasingly vocal movement is trying to change that.
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