Specter of Debtors’ Prisons Looms Over Americans Who Just Can’t Pay
Mac Slavo Activist Post A special report highlights the growing disparity in America, and the issues many are having in keeping up with payments, which…
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The Shackles Return: Why Debtors’ Prisons Are Making An American Comeback
Devon Douglas-Bowers Activist Post The debtors’ prison is an old, decrepit institution that many thought was abolished in the 19th century, something little more than…
Parental Incarceration Can Be Worse for a Child Than Divorce or Death of a Parent
Activist Post With more than 2 million people behind bars, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This mass incarceration has serious…
FBI Scandal: Flawed Forensics Rampant, Impacted Many Cases
Lily Dane Activist Post Over two years ago, the Justice Department and the FBI began a review of thousands of criminal cases to determine if…
Mass Incarceration: 21 Amazing Facts About America’s Obsession With Prison
Michael Snyder Activist Post Nobody in the world loves locking people behind bars as much as Americans do. We have more people in prison than…
Jails are Becoming Insane Asylums: Thanks, “Drug War”
Lily Dane Activist Post The United States is notorious for locking up people for committing victimless crimes. The country, which only has 5% of the…
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New NDAA Bolsters Guantanamo-style Indefinite Detention for Americans
Jamiol Cartoon Chris Anders Activist Post Top senators thought you wouldn’t notice. Behind closed doors, they wrote up new indefinite detention and Guantánamo provisions in…
How You Can Stop NDAA Indefinite Detention In Your City
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Imprisoned While Innocent: The Daniel Villegas Story
Derrick Broze Activist Post In April 1993 Robert England and Armando Lazo were shot dead in the bordertown of El Paso, Texas. At that time…
Report: Cost of Incarceration Outweighs the Benefits
Report Concludes the U.S. Should Significantly Reduce Rate of Incarceration Activist Post Given the minimal impact of long prison sentences on crime prevention and the…
Overflowing U.S. Private Prisons, by the Numbers (w/Infographic)
By Joe Wright The predatory corporate prison enterprise aims to privatize profits and socialize losses. This combination has led to a situation where correctional facilities…
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Mentally Ill Homeless Veteran Left to ‘Bake to Death’ in 100+ Degree Rikers Island Jail Cell
Melissa Melton Activist Post In a country that puts more people per capita in prison than any other on the planet, stories like this one…