Prison Industrial Complex

The Department of Justice announced that it will phase out its use of private prisons. There's no need for them with the declining population of federal prisoners.

POTUS granted 42 federal prisoners clemency, most of who were incarcerated on drug charges.

Plus, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser calls for her district to become a state and the MacArthur Foundation grants millions to help reduce our nation's jail population.

The New Orleans' native was the longest-serving prisoner to be held in solitary confinement in US history.

The prison inmate phone call business is a multi-billion dollar industry that has been gouging families and those locked up behind bars for years. FCC…

Is this a political move or is the reality of Black men's incarceration a deep concern for Hilary Clinton?

A new report from MetricMaps details a shocking statistic — in 16 states in the nation, there are more people locked up in correctional facilities than those…

The case of Joan (pronounced “Jo-Anne”) Little helped bring awareness to sexual buse of women in prison. On this day in 1975, Ms. Little became…

Overcrowding has long plagued Chicago’s Cook County jail and Commissioner Larry Suffredin, (D-13th),  has proposed using taxpayer dollars to bail out low-level inmates who are…

Many of us were still on a post-Inaugural high even after King Day. Took me a minute to snap out of the euphoria. President Barack…