The prison industrial complex thrives off of cyclical imprisonment. Across the country, prisoners are working up to 12 hours a day while earning less than $1 an hour for their labor. By law, this is ...

Massachusetts prisons have been at the center of the debate around solitary confinement recently due to the large number of inmates the state places in isolation, often for months or years at a time.

Justice chiefs are facing calls to adopt a more “humane approach” after it emerged that inmates with intellectual and ...

BOSTON (CBS) - With fewer than 10,000 people locked up, a recent study credits Massachusetts as having one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country. But those numbers only account for ...

Citizens of California and the United States at large are losing interest in punishment for punishment’s sake. The future of corrections is in rehabilitation, not only in policy with a few ...

The standard answer to the question posed by the title of Bill Keller's new book, What's Prison For?, cites four goals: punishment, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation. But as Keller shows, ...

The United States Constitution remains one of the highest protections of individual freedoms; however, these rights remain frequently ignored, eroded, or denied despite protections for current and ...

Citizens of California and the United States at large are losing interest in punishment for punishment’s sake. The future of corrections is in rehabilitation, not only in policy with a few ...