Prison

Assata Shakur first woman named on FBI most wanted terror list

40 years after reportedly killing a state trooper, Shakur exemplifies the continued punishment of black power

Natasha Lennard Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:01 PM UTC 74
News assata shakur, black power

U.S. citizen sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea

Korean-American Kenneth Bae has been convicted of unspecified crimes against the regime

Jessica Phelan and Geoffrey Cain, GlobalPost Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:47 PM UTC
Social GlobalPost, North Korea

Baltimore prison guards indicted in massive drug conspiracy

Thirteen female guards are accused of helping gang members run a national drug ring from behind bars

McCarton Ackerman, The Fix Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 4:22 PM UTC
News The Fix, Baltimore

Drug war and mass incarceration, by the numbers

More than half of federal prisoners have been incarcerated for drug crimes

Natasha Lennard Monday, Apr 8, 2013 5:19 PM UTC
News aol_on, War on Drugs, Prison

ACLU: Ohio illegally jailing debtors

The modern-day debtors' prisons push poor defendants further into destitution

Associated Press Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 7:31 PM UTC 19
News Ohio, Prison, Debt, debtors' prison

ELF activist rearrested for writing blog post

Daniel McGowan, recently released into a halfway house, is back in federal detention reportedly over HuffPo column

Natasha Lennard Friday, Apr 5, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 21
News daniel mcgowan

Taibbi: “Three strikes” laws are cruel and unusual

The Rolling Stone writer traces the history of a carceral system that jails the poor and homeless

Natasha Lennard Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 7:30 PM UTC
News Rolling Stone, Three Strikes

Colorado Department of Corrections chief shot dead in home

Tom Clements had been praised for improving prison safety standards

P. Solomon Banda, Associated Press Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013 2:40 PM UTC
News Associated Press, Colorado

Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s prison heroin empire

At this point, America's notorious prison gang is more devoted to the drug trade than it is to its racist ideology

Seth Ferranti, The Fix Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 5:58 PM UTC
Life The Fix, Aryan Brotherhood

Daring prison break: Quebec inmates escape in hijacked helicopter

Two men exchanged gun fire with police at a rural cabin before finally being recaptured

Associated Press Monday, Mar 18, 2013 5:06 PM UTC
News Associated Press, Prison

The Internet blew my mind

When I went to prison in the '80s, the web didn't exist. Nothing could have prepared me for what it had to offer VIDEO

Michael Santos, The Daily Dot Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 5:08 PM UTC 28
Technology Video, the daily dot

Man falsely imprisoned for 25 years gets married

Michael Morton and Cynthia May Chessman got married this weekend

Alex Halperin Sunday, Mar 10, 2013 2:40 PM UTC
Life Michael Morton

Ohio Amish face unfamiliar life in federal prison

The regimented routine in a federal prison system includes "constant temptations" -- like television

Thomas J. Sheeran, Associated Press Thursday, Mar 7, 2013 3:36 PM UTC 18
Life Amish, Crime, Prison

CIA whistle-blower sentenced to 30 months

John Kiriakou is now the only agent to be jailed over torture, and he never tortured anyone

Natasha Lennard Friday, Jan 25, 2013 5:45 PM UTC 15
News Torture, Whistleblowing

Will prisons ever open up to journalists?

Too often, public officials have the final say on how much the public knows about what happens in America's jails

Jessica Pupovac, The Crime Report Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 4:53 PM UTC
Life The Crime Report, Prison

Disappearing ink

A tattoo-covered doctor helps ex-cons remove their most scarring legacies

Matthew Wolfe, Narratively Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 1:00 AM UTC
Life Narratively, Tattoos, Crime, Prison

Bank robbers make spectacular jail escape

Two criminals, one a self-described "Moorish national," busted out of a high-rise lockup using a rope of bedsheets

Don Terry, Southern Poverty Law Center Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 5:58 PM UTC
News Southern Poverty Law Center

Re-inventing college for prisons

Two ex-inmates are trying to bring higher education to the incarcerated, one maximum security facility at a time

Graham Kates, The Crime Report Saturday, Dec 15, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
Life The Crime Report, Prison

5 biggest threats to the middle class

It's time to stop blaming the federal government and start looking at the parasitism of corporate America

Paul Buchheit, Alternet Monday, Dec 10, 2012 4:16 PM UTC
Politics AlterNet, Middle Class

Addicted prisoners wait years for treatment

A new report reveals that the waiting list for addiction treatment in federal prisons is 51,000 inmates long

Seth Ferranti, The Fix Thursday, Dec 6, 2012 10:25 PM UTC
Politics The Fix, addiction, Prison, Drugs

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