September 24, 2012
After decades of sending thousands of people to prison for drug use, states are rethinking their drug policies.
September 4, 2012
An immigration detainee writes in his cell at the Etowah County Detention Center. Photo by Hannah Rappleye/NBC News
Rotten and insufficient food...
August 29, 2012
Proposition 36 would limit California's "Three Strikes" law to people convicted of violent crimes, saving the cash-strapped state over $100 million...
July 30, 2012
The stabbing death of 23-year-old Steven Newell at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, last week underscores the urgent need for...
July 18, 2012
A judge in Alabama last week ordered the Harpersville Municipal Court to stop jailing people who cannot pay speeding tickets and the extra fees...
July 11, 2012
It is illegal to jail people because they are too poor to pay a fine, but as local authorities and private probation companies face mounting pressure...
June 21, 2012
At a meeting of the Alabama Legislature's Joint Prison Oversight Committee yesterday, where lawmakers discussed reports of sexual abuse of female...
June 18, 2012
Alabama prisoner Kenric Turner was killed last week near Loxley while working on an Alabama Department of Corrections road crew when a vehicle...
June 5, 2012
Alabama's prisons house twice as many people as they were designed to hold and the ratio of inmates to correctional officers is the worst of any...
May 30, 2012
A week after EJI reported widespread sexual abuse of women prisoners by male guards at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, editorial...
