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• Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) introduced a House Resolution that she calls “The People’s Justice Guarantee,” which lays out steps for a “humane and effective justice system,”“mass decarceration,” and diversionary alternatives for community safety. According to The Appeal, Pressley said, “The criminal legal justice system is racist, xenophobic, rogue, and fundamentally flawed beyond reform. It […]

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Sentencing

Seven Days in Solitary [11/18/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/15/19]

Prisons Use Solitary Confinement to Silence Strikers Nationwide—But Their Voices Have Been Heard

Seven Days in Solitary [9/23/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [8/19/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/10/18]

Voices from Solitary: “Mind Blowing Because I’m a Kid”

DC’s Youth Face Solitary Confinement in District Jails and Federal Prisons

The Other Death Sentence: Aging and Dying in Prison

Voices from Solitary: High Tech Brutality

“Occupy” Prison Protests in California Oppose Use of Solitary Confinement

Solitary Confinement in Virginia’s Prisons

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime

“God’s Own Warden”: Inside Angola Prison

Voices from Solitary: The Meaning of “Life”

Groups Urge Holder to Clean House at the Bureau of Prisons

No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons

Fortresses of Solitude (Part 2)

The Scott Sisters’ “Debt to Society” and the New Jim Crow

After 16 Years Behind Bars for an $11 Robbery, the Scott Sisters Will Be Free at Last

Scott Sisters Case Wins National Attention

How to Create Madness in Prison

A Chance at Freedom for the Scott Sisters?

Voices from Solitary: “Geezer in the Hole”

“Never in the Civilised World Have So Many Been Locked Up for So Little”

No Legal Defense for the Poor

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights–and Lose the First Round