On August 18, 2016, Sally Quinn, Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice (DOJ), announced that the Department would end its use of private prisons. This is an important development, but... Read more »
Recent assaults on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar have renewed concerns about whether the chronically understaffed, crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe, Michael R.... Read more »
A November report from the New York State Inspector General found that defects in both the manufacturing and administration of drug tests used by the New York State Department of Corrections and... Read more »
75 percent of Florida prisons lack air conditioning, a situation made even worse by this summer’s record-breaking temperatures, Mitch Perry reports for the Florida Phoenix. In response, prisons have rolled out temporary... Read more »
Two nonprofit prison book programs are accusing the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) of quietly implementing a new book vendor approval policy that they say amounts to censorship, reports Toluwani Osibamowo... Read more »
England and Wales banned the use of pain-inducing physical restraint last week in children’s prisons. Such techniques are to be “minimised and will only be used as a last resort where it... Read more »
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Shouting, screaming and crying with raw desperation, dozens of prisoners’ relatives and former inmates gathered at the state Capitol Tuesday begging, once again, for state officials to install air conditioning in Texas... Read more »