June 21, 2018 USA: video call to action from inside Angola prison News Protest United States A video was released from a prison rebel inside of Louisiana’s Angola prison.The goals are to organize incarcerated people against the racist and exploitative nature of the prison system and society as a whole.
June 13, 2018 USA: are elderly inmates at risk? News United States William S. Sires, a 72-year-old convicted murderer, was walking with a cane in a maximum-security prison in Shirley when he was ambushed and killed by other inmates nearly four years ago.
June 13, 2018 USA: jurors thought a gay man would enjoy prison. They sent him to death row instead News United States “It was pretty glaring that there was some anti-gay bias going on in the jury room.” Rhines was convicted of murdering Schaeffer the following year and sentenced to death. But lawyers appointed to handle his case say that the sentence was tainted and should be overturned.
May 30, 2018 USA: teaching "Les Misérables" in prison News United States I spent the last four months teaching Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel Les Misérables at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey.
May 26, 2018 États-Unis : la prison de Guantanamo s'adapte à ses détenus vieillissants News United States This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
May 25, 2018 États-Unis : du porc pour les prisonniers musulmans News Religion United States This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
May 21, 2018 USA: portrait of despair, opioids land more women behind bars News Women United States On opposite sides of the county jail, a mother and her son chat about school, girls, birthday gifts — and their future together. They aren’t allowed to see each other face-to-face, so the inmate and the fifth-grader connect by video.
May 20, 2018 USA: the right way to fix the prisons News United States President Trump gave a rare display of empathy at a prison-reform meeting at the White House on Friday.
May 20, 2018 USA: why are for-profit US prisons subjecting detainees to forced labor ? News United States Private Prisons Have For Years Enriched Themselves By Exploiting Detained Immigrant Labor. They must be held accountable.
May 18, 2018 USA: new edition of Unstoppable News Culture United States Unstoppable is an antiauthoritarian and anti-prison publication for trans, non-binary, and women prisoners. They proudly announce their second issue.
May 15, 2018 États-Unis : les droits des personnes trans en prison gravement menacés par l'administration Trump News LGBTQI United States This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
May 10, 2018 USA: strike breaks out at angola prison as momentum builds for national prison strike News United States On Tuesday, inmates took part in a work stoppage at the infamous Angola prison in Louisiana to decry prison slavery.
May 10, 2018 USA: will congress authorize indefinite detention of Americans? News Asia United States Under the guise of exercising supervisory power over the president’s ability to use military force, Congress is considering writing Donald Trump a blank check to indefinitely detain US citizens with no criminal charges.
May 9, 2018 USA: how over-incarceration is driving a push for criminal justice reform News United States A conversation with Jasmine Heiss from the Vera Institute of Justice about a recent poll that uncovers American’s souring sentiment toward incarceration policy.
May 8, 2018 USA: judge approves settlement mandating air conditioning at hot Texas prison News Material conditions United States “I never dreamt we’d get the Pack Unit air-conditioned,” the federal judge said at a Houston hearing.
May 8, 2018 USA: remembering Japanese-American incarceration during WWII News Culture United States As part of its mission to bear witness to the lessons of history and to remember victims of persecution, Music of Remembrance has commissioned a new musical work about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II by Seattle composer Christophe Chagnard.
May 7, 2018 USA: mass incarceration no more? News United States There’s good news on a subject usually associated with the social ills of the United States: incarceration. According to newly released Justice Department statistics, the prison population fell 1.4 percent in 2016, to 1,505,000.
May 4, 2018 États-Unis : l’incarcération de masse des hommes noirs dénoncée dans une série photo News United States This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
May 3, 2018 USA: a transgender inmate says she was raped in a 'discriminatory and dangerous' Colorado men's prison News LGBTQI United States A transgender inmate who is suing Colorado’s corrections agency says she was raped at a men’s prison hours after a federal judge denied her request to block the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit, according to court records and the woman’s attorney.
May 1, 2018 Aux Etats-Unis, la "gay panic" permet toujours d'éviter la prison pour le meurtre d'un homosexuel News Justice United States This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
April 30, 2018 USA: women in prison take home economics, while men take carpentry News Women United States Decades after a government report on deep inequity in the vocational offerings of the nation’s criminal-justice system, little has changed.
April 26, 2018 United States of America : staying awake while doing time Testimonial United States “*We believe that life is happening anywhere but here.”* Robert Lee Allen is imprisoned in the state of Michigan. Here is his testimonial.
April 25, 2018 USA: female incarceration reveals a cruel and broken justice system News Women United States Although boys are disproportionately represented in juvenile and criminal proceedings, girls are the fastest-growing segment of the juvenile population and are often in the system for reasons very different from boys. A groundbreaking report released in 2015 unearthed a “sexual abuse to prison pipe…
April 24, 2018 USA: the première of “O.G.,” the film made inside an Indiana Prison News Culture United States The film “O.G.,” set and shot in a prison in Indiana, using inmates and guards as cast and crew, had its première on Friday night, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival
