Rachel Kushner's new novel set in a women's prison brims with morally tainted characters who are also victims of repressive and dehumanizing incarceration.
Matthew Charles, although he committed no new crime, is back behind bars, and his case is generating a widespread demand for his release.
As a 16-year-old, he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for robbery. And the Supreme Court will not review his case to overturn the extreme punishment.
Fueled in part by the #MeToo movement, state legislatures, corrections officials and the federal government are working to address the issue.
The 5-3 Supreme Court ruling tosses out a 2015 lower court decision that entitled immigrant detainees to a bond hearing every six months.
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges meets with ex-prisoner Ojore Lutalo and rights advocate Bonnie Kerness to discuss abuse in U.S. penitentiaries.
A coalition of inmates in 10 of the state’s prisons are protesting brutal living conditions, lack of parole and not being paid for their labor.
Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual to turn a black radical into a red-white-and-blue icon. It is a day filled with old sound bites about little black children and little white children that, given the state of America, would enrage King.
Justice today is just like the justice of yesteryear, especially when it comes to the use of capital punishment.
The author has been in San Quentin since 1985 and is fighting to prevent the state of California from killing him for a murder he says he did not commit.
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