13th is a documentary that includes an in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality. The film begins with the idea that 25 percent of the people in the world who are incarcerated are incarcerated in the U.S. Although the U.S. h...

Jill Filipovic: An ACLU lawsuit against a prison in Mississippi is the latest to detail flagrant abuses at a private correctional facility

Obama’s push for criminal justice reform comes at a time when nearly half of all federal inmates are imprisoned on drug offenses.

Eliza Shapiro talks to Richard Ross, whose ‘Juvenile In Justice’ captures kids stuck in the prison system.

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars, the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's prison system. In packed arenas, watched by millions of live-stream viewers, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.Fan favourites Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares for her final encounters, as protestors gather at the gates, and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?

The renewed fortunes and the hidden history of the for-profit prison industry.

Is America so great that the punishment for criminal behavior is to treat humans like caged animals and never give them any respect?

ABOUT CHAIN GANG ALL STARS NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black“L

Incarceration rates have tripled over the past three decades, driving up spending on jails and prisons. California spends $53,146 more per prisoner than it does per student, according to a new report.

America is on an imprisonment spree, but it wasn't always like this. Check out the prison population before and after 1980.

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCEA Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews“Like Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Adjei-Brenyah’s book presents a dystopian vision so…illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we’re capable of doing.” —The Washington Post“This book will change you!…A masterpiece.” —Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show’s #ReadWithJennaShe felt their eyes, all those executioners…Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom.In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE’s corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar’s path have devastating consequences.    Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a “new and necessary American voice” (Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review). DETAILS ISBN-13: 9780593469316 Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: January 23, 2024 Pages: 432

The abbreviated story of Martin Sostre, a revolutionary prisoner who challenged and changed the American prison system from his cell in solitary confinement.

An online site for the Federal prison system allows you to look of anyone in a federal prison since 1984.

Even white people can't escape the hellscape that is America's jail system

America locks up too many people for too many things

To shrink the prison population, we'll need to think a lot bigger than nonviolent drug offenders.

White people seem to believe that more black prisoners is a sign of an effective criminal justice system, even when they have the racial inequalities of that system waved in front of their noses. That's according to a new study out of Stanford…

By Rami Nsour [dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]believe that every American has the duty to know what is going on with incarceration in our country. We house the largest number of prisoners in the world, pay for it with our tax dollars and support it by legislation that we vote for. In addition to this civic duty of […]

PRISON MAP Prison Map is the most complete visualisation project of America’s prison system that I’ve come across. No surprise that it takes the form of satellite imagery and no surpris…

BEIJING—Acknowledging that its current programs are insufficient to meet the needs of a fast-paced, 21st-century population, the Chinese Ministry of Justice held a press conference Friday affirming its commitment to fixing the nation’s crumbling reeducation system.

Philadelphia’s prison system fights recidivism with butternut squash. While over-incarceration does nothing to make America safer, at least one state is working to make sure that inmates learn a skill that has been proven to keep them from returning to prison – organic farming. Even the setting of the small prison farm is an odd juxtaposition to the concrete block and barbed wire image conjured by most penitentiaries. Though once a construction site, a three-acre farm replete with a winding creek with tributaries that empty into the Delaware river, fruit trees, and honey bees pollinating bushes, this is the place where

Atul Gawande asks, If prolonged isolation is so objectively horrifying, how did we end up with a prison system that subjects so many people to it?

The following is a collection of poems, the majority of which were written in California State Prison New Folsom's Creative writing class. This class provided an open environment where freedom of expression was encouraged. Our teachers (Spoon Jackson and Judith Tanenbaum) pushed us to challenge ourselves, to bring out the raw emotion of our hurt and pain...even if this expression was hard for some to swallow...for me, having been in prison at the time, for going on ten years, the hurt and pain was at an all time high...not only from losing loved ones while in prison, which is a hurt that can barely be described (not being able to attend funerals or comfort ones relatives) also the frustrations of being Muslim in California's State Prison system post 9/11...Muslims in California's Prison system are routinely harassed by ignorant correctional officers who are influenced, by right-wing media coverage of Muslims, to believe that all Muslims are extremists and are part of some sleeper cell, as if we have some type of secret alliance with Osama bin Laden (before he was killed) or Abu Bakr al Baghdadi (the leader of ISIS). | Author: Talib Williams | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2018 | Number of Pages: 230 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1720712697 | ISBN-13: 9781720712695

An infographic depicting the possible paths of people charged with different offenses, revealing the various privatized services provided by the corrections industry.

Frank Grillo has signed on to star opposite Harvey Keitel in the action-thriller 'Hard Matter.'

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The darkest manifestation of American exceptionalism may be its prison system. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world: It has only 5% of the world's population, but one-quarter of its prisoners. U.S. prisons…

The artist’s new show DAMNATION is a powerful exposure of America’s system of incarceration. Here, he speaks on the project with architecture critic and curator Mimi Zeiger

Frank Grillo has signed on to star opposite Harvey Keitel in the action-thriller 'Hard Matter.'

Here in the U.S., we seem to treat prison as the answer to every issue. Drugs? Violence? Some prison time ought to fix that, right? But seriously, maybe it's time we stop using lockup as a stopgap and try addressing the real problems with our justice system that lead to this type of craziness.

The American prison system should be our greatest source of shame. The only country that imprisons more people per capita may be North Korea. The voiceless and voteless prisoners and former prisoners in America need us to advocate for reform.