Pregnant people are undergoing constant horrors at the hands of the carceral state, and the laws we’ve passed aren’t helping enough. Pamela Winn speaks in a PBS documentary about her life. It was a ...

Narges Mohammadi, who was jailed in November 2021 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was punched in the chest by ...

Amnesty International at Cornell will be hosting a Mass Incarceration Week of Action, from April 9 to April 13. The week will be dedicated to educating students and spreading awareness regarding flaws ...

On December 13, Belarusian authorities released 123 prisoners following negotiations led by the US administration. Most of ...

In 2011, Melisha Johnson faced a 12-year prison sentence. She had been arrested for writing bad checks before, but this time was different. She faced the possibility of having to spend more than a ...

We examined the injustices of prison labor nationwide — and lay the foundation for a more equitable path forward. Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and ...

More than 50 people were arrested, including five women human rights defenders, while they were taking part in a ...

I was glad to see that the Framingham City Council wants to meet with representatives from Gov. Healey’s administration about the $360 million renovation slated for MCI-Framingham. Transparency for ...

Across the country, fewer people are behind bars today than a decade ago. But new analysis from the Prison Policy Initiative says women – in Alabama and beyond – are not part of that progress. Alabama ...