Matt Stroud - In These Times

Matt Stroud is a former Innocence Network investigator who now covers the U.S. legal system, in all its glory and ugliness, as a freelance journalist. Follow him on Twitter @ssttrroouudd. Email him at stroudjournalism<at>gmail.com.

‘An unprincipled fortress on a hill’: ACLU on why WWII internment camps are still relevant today

Study: DNA exonerations declined in 2013, while non-DNA exonerations rose sharply

‘Lives lived behind bars are too often invisible’: Pete Brook’s ‘Prison Photography’ on display

After protesting solitary confinement—from solitary confinement—prisoners back in court

Study funded by private prison dollars praises private prisons; no comment, says public university

Cost of prison phone calls is mercifully on the decline, but there a loophole—video calls

Decision to abandon private prison company a welcomed, ‘profound about-face’ from Idaho governor

New Wall Street ‘social-impact bond’ places bets on prisoner recidivism, job training

With a 47 year sentence for marijuana distribution, Weldon Angelos deserves a commutation

Could a recent Supreme Court decision give juvenile lifers a second chance?

30 years in ‘the hole’: Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz, 70, remains in solitary confinement despite pleas

Heat levels on Angola death row amount to ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ judge rules

What Do TV and Movies Get Right and Wrong About Prisons? – Volume II, ‘The Great Hollywood Con

What Do TV and Movies Get Right and Wrong About Prisons?

Groups offer a solution for the high cost of private prison phone calls

In upcoming San Francisco jail sex-bias case, deputies argue men must help to guard womens’ jail

‘Finally out and among the living,’ Colo. prisoner re-emerges after 10 years in solitary

Ten years in, Prison Rape Elimination Act standards finally go into effect

Weekend read: G4S claims it’s ‘securing your world’—but does your world need securing by G4S?

A decent proposal: to reduce recidivism, more prisons should allow conjugal visits

Private prisons thrive despite repeated failures to justify a costly, dangerous industry

Controversy over U.S. lethal injections sparks interest in France’s last execution—in 1977

Did Private Prison Medics Let A Woman Die To Save Cash? Judge Rules Pa. Lawsuit Will Go Forward

Southern Discomfort: Notoriously Conservative Alabama Revises Harsh Sentencing; Florida Doubles Down

No Compensation: Wrongfully Convicted Man Can’t Sue Police Who Helped To Put Him Behind Bars

On Government Prison Contracts To Buy And Sell Human Beings: 2013 Edition

‘We cannot afford to stay on our current path’: Senate Begins Debate Over Mandatory Minimums

Idaho Judge Holds Private Prison Company CCA In Contempt For Deliberately Understaffing Prisons

‘Sham or mere pretext’: Kansas sex offenders locked up ‘till death, even without a life sentence

In Failed Extradition Attempt, A European Rebuke Of Solitary Confinement And U.S. ‘Supermax’ Prisons

One in 27 Texas Adults Ensnared By The State’s Justice System; Even Prison COs Are Crying Foul

UPDATED: Calif. Gov. Proposes Prison Expansion, Privatization To Avoid Prisoner Early Release

Introducing The Prison Complex: Your Source for Tracking the United States’ Incarceration Epidemic