Dan*, a 40-something prisoner in Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF), wants to make it clear that he doesn't intend…
On December 14, a federal judge held the New York City Department of Correction in contempt of court, as Gothamist…
A St. Louis city jail is reportedly now tracking overdoses among incarcerated people, after local media forced its hand. But…
On November 27, Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appointed Flavio Dino to Brazil's Supreme Court. In filling the…
On October 6 in Rio Grande do Sul, the government of Brazil held the first auction for a public-private partnership…
From September 6 to October 16, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) implemented a “systemwide lockdown and comprehensive search”…
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (R) is fighting a deposition that would require him to testify in October 24 in…
A federal judge is demanding that New York City take rapid action over conditions in its Rikers Island jail complex.…
Incarceration in the United States has long been used to strip cultural identities from people of color. Through the centuries,…
Travis learned to crochet from his grandmother. He was 10 when she showed him his first stitch, in 1986, and…