A Private Prison Company Gave 1,300 Recordings of Confidential Inmate Phone Calls to Prosecutors
Thinkstock/ Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than 1300 private conversations between a private prison’s inmates and their lawyers were recorded according to information in a new lawsuit against CoreCivic, the private company running the facility, and its technology provider Securus Technologies. Numerous charges and convictions against the inmates…
Jared Kushner’s Prison Reform Plan Just Passed the House With Van Jones’ Support
Jared KushnerOlivier Douliery/ Abaca Press(Sipa via AP Images) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump just scored a victory on criminal justice reform, and some Democrats are actually pleased. In a 360-59 vote, the House of Representatives approved a prison bill on Tuesday that the president and his son-in-law, Jared…
How Trial by Skype Became the Norm in Immigration Court
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rob DobiTess Feldman stood in an empty San Francisco courtroom, facing a three-foot-wide television screen. “Good morning!” she shouted toward a camera connected to the TV. “Can you hear me?” A stunned-looking man in an orange prison jumpsuit appeared on screen. An inmate at the Mesa…
A Connecticut Prison Has a Radical New Plan to Keep Young Inmates From Coming Back
This story was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Leona Godfrey was sitting down to dinner at a TGI Fridays in Orange, Connecticut, in December 2013 when she glanced at a television and saw her little brother’s name on the local news. Davon Eldemire…
The Supreme Court Will Review Case of a Man Whose Blood-Filled Tumors Could Burst During Execution
Chuck Myers/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Russell Bucklew, a death row inmate in Missouri who was scheduled to die on March 20. Hours before the execution was set to take place, the high court voted 5-4 to halt the…
Texas Women Prisoners Can Learn How to Type and Cook. Men Can Get a Master’s.
mediaphotos/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re locked up in Texas and want to earn a master’s degree, you’re out of luck unless you have a penis. That’s right: Although the state incarcerates more women than any other, its prison system denies female inmates access to educational programs offered…