OverCriminalized: Alternatives to Incarceration?

George Lavender

Former Chicago Police Commander Accused of Torture Released from Prison

George Lavender

US Prisons Guilty of Censorship Says Report to UN

George Lavender

Despite Anti-Shackling Laws Pregnant Prisoners Are Still Being Put In Handcuffs and Chains

George Lavender

Thirty Two Florida Prison Guards Fired Amid Allegations of Abuse

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Forty Years in Solitary: Two of the Angola Three Sue Louisiana Prison Officials

George Lavender

California Jails Forcing Women to Take Pregnancy Tests Face Legal Challenge

George Lavender

North Carolina’s Longest-Serving Death Row Prisoner Released

George Lavender

California Moves to Change Solitary Confinement for Mentally Ill Prisoners

George Lavender

How Many People Are Convicted of Crimes They Didn’t Commit?

George Lavender

Videos Show Denver Sheriffs Slapping, Choking, Punching, and Tasing Prisoners

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New York Prison Guards Union Backs Plan to Change District Attorney for Rikers Island

George Lavender

Execution of Arizona Prisoner Takes Almost Two Hours

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Judge says States Carrying out Death Penalty “Committing a Horrendous Brutality on our Behalf”

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WATCH: Comedian John Oliver Weighs in on America’s Criminal Justice System

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Sentencing Commission Votes to Reduce Thousands of Prison Sentences

George Lavender

More Correctional Officers Arrested in Rikers Island Investigation

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Violent Crime in Prison Doesn’t Count in Federal Reports

George Lavender

Juveniles Still Face Decades in Prison Under New Mandatory Minimum Sentences

George Lavender

The Price of Prison Time: States Pay-Out for Post-Conviction Exonerations

George Lavender

‘When I See You, I See $80 a Day’: New Report Slams Private Prisons for Immigrants

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Shocking Photos From Inside Private Prison

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Colorado Bans Use of Solitary Confinement for “Seriously Mentally Ill” Prisoners

George Lavender

Imprisoned for Being Too Poor to Pay a Fine?

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TIMELINE: A History of the Death Penalty

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Prisoner Deaths in Florida Mental Health Units Investigated

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Deaths on Rikers Island Raise Concerns for Mentally Ill Prisoners

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County Sheriffs Refuse to Comply with ICE Holds

George Lavender

Sixty Years After Brown v Board of Education, Racism Persists in Prison System says Attorney General

George Lavender

Massachusetts Prisoners Take Sheriffs To Court Over “Degrading” Strip-Searches

George Lavender

Hunger Strike May Spur Federal Reform to Immigration Detention

George Lavender

Presidential Clemency: Which Presidents Used It Most?

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New Chance of Clemency for Thousands of Federal Prisoners

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Meet Cam Ward. Alabama State Senator. Republican. Prison Reformer?

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Transgender Prisoner Files Lawsuit After Hormone Therapy Denied

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New Law In Tennessee Will Send Women To Prison For Illegal Drug Use While Pregnant

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California Moves to Prevent Future Sterilization of Prisoners

George Lavender

Is Prison Labor A Union Issue?

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The Free Alabama Movement: “Alabama Will Be Ground Central For A Civil Rights Movement Again”

George Lavender

Alabama Prison Work Strike ‘Stalls’ But Wins Support from Wobblies

George Lavender

Doctors Question Medical Diagnosis Used in Thousands of Criminal Cases

George Lavender

Prisoners in Texas Dying from Extreme Heat

George Lavender

Kentucky Prison Doctor Fired After Hunger Striking Prisoner Starves to Death

George Lavender

New Mexico Ending Conjugal Visits for Prisoners

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North Carolina Supreme Court May Return Prisoners Spared by Racial Justice Act to Death Row

George Lavender

Prison Food Company Faces Fresh Criticism

George Lavender

Hunger Strikers Deported From Northwest Detention Center

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California Moves to Curb Solitary Confinement

George Lavender