Private prison companies lost the possibility of a big profit last week when one of the largest known government privatization campaigns in the country was blocked by a Florida judge for being unconstitutional. But the private-prison players like GEO Group and the Corrections Corporation of America that would have More…
In light of Georgia’s plans to go through with the execution of Troy Davis at 7:00 p.m. EST tonight, despite the recantation of seven of the nine witnesses that originally testified against him and the worldwide appeals, death penalty opponents also cite the high cost of executing inmates More…
Jon Buice, who confessed to joining in the hate-crime murder of Paul Broussard in Houston in 1991, will be paroled in October after serving less than half of his 45 year sentence.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles agreed last Friday to grant his early release,KHOU More…
This week, the Pew’s Economic Mobility Project is up with an astonishing report on the financial damage incarceration does to inmates and the broader economic opportunity locked up in America’s prisons. The United States currently jails one in every 100 adults — the highest rate in the world. That More…
A recently released convict describes how the foreclosure crisis changed the economy in prison:
[B]lack market prices were suddenly going through the roof. The price of a deck of smokes tripled. There was an actual economic reason about this.
From a letter just sent to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano:
As the President has made clear, we will need to continue to detain
David Keene of the American Conservative Union, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, and former congressman/Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr are backing a proposal to send Guantanamo Bay detainees to a prison in Illinois, as well as President Obama’s plan to try terrorism suspects in federal courts. The More…
A U.S. Marine reservist and general has created a detailed report recommending that up to 400 of the 600 prisoners at the U.S.-run prison at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have done nothing wrong and should be released, NPR reports.
Lawyers have been making that argument More…
Responding to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Department of Homeland Security today acknowledged 11 deaths of immigrants in U.S. detention facilities that the agency had previously failed to disclose.
In April, DHS responded to the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit with a “comprehensive” list More…
Obama administration officials will tour a Michigan state prison today in the hopes of using it to hold suspected terrorists now imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, The Associated Press reports.
Representatives of the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security are scheduled to visit the prison in Standish, Mich., More…
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