April 15, 2013
Lawyers with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice were at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, last week...
April 8, 2013
Since December 14, 2012, when 20 children and six adult staff members were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,...
March 29, 2013
The Alabama Legislature passed a joint resolution honoring civil rights activist and professor Angela Davis for her significant contributions to...
March 21, 2013
According to a new survey by the Pew Center on the States, as of January 2010, there were 1,404,053 people in state prisons, which was 4777 fewer...
March 4, 2013
EJI will honor former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Elaine Jones and Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., co-founders...
February 20, 2013
Teera Baumbach-Majeski. Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle / special to news-press.com
An intellectually disabled teenage girl in Florida faced up to 15...
January 31, 2013
Enslaved people who have just escaped from a Virginia plantation in 1862. (Library of Congress)
January 30, 2013
In a report released on Friday, the Justice Department criticized Alabama's Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, where female prisoners who report...
January 23, 2013
Rocrast Mack (pictured with his son) was beaten to death by prison guards on August 4, 2010.
The Justice Department announced last week that...
January 14, 2013
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules changes that would bring down the rates for interstate phone calls placed from prisons,...
