Death Penalty
Apr 26, 2013
Are California Prisons Punishing Inmates Based on Race?
Apr 15, 2013 In several men’s prisons across California, colored signs hang above cell doors: blue for black inmates, white for white, red, green or pink for Hispanic, yellow for everyone else. On any given day, the color of a sign could mean the difference between an inmate exercising in the prison yard or being confined to his cell.
The Shame of America’s Gulag
Mar 18, 2013 US prisons are the engines of a system of neo-slavery in which corporations feed on the bodies of people of color Reform is unlikely in the face of enormous profits.
Profiting From Human Misery
Feb 18, 2013 The for-profit prison industry, which is expanding across the nation, has blunted prison reform, stymied repeal of our draconian drug laws and successfully lobbied for harsher and harsher detention policies. Mass incarceration is increasingly about corporate profit, not justice. The for-profit prison industry has blunted prison reform, stymied repeal of draconian drug laws and successfully lobbied for ever-harsher detention policies.
Locking Down an American Workforce
Apr 20, 2012 Prisoners, whose ranks increasingly consist of those for whom the legitimate economy has found no use, make up a virtual brigade within the reserve army of the unemployed whose ranks have ballooned along with the U.S. incarceration rate.Immigrants for Sale
May 13, 2011 Brave New Films sent us this must-watch primer on the big business (to the tune of $5 billion annually) of immigrant imprisonment. Watch and connect the dots between shady right-wing lobbyists, state legislators and private dungeons.
