On AlterNet: inmates

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "inmates"

Sting Operation Finds Cell Phone Smuggling Rampant In Prisons

Michael Montgomery, California Watch. April 22, 2011.

On the prison black market, a cell phone can fetch up to $1,000 or more.

Millions in the Slammer: We Must Reverse America's Zeal to Incarcerate

deleted, The Women's International Perspective. December 30, 2007.

The U.S. has the most prisoners and the highest jailing rate of any country -- the insanity must stop.

U.S. Prisoners Exposed to Deadly Chemicals in Toxic Sweatshops

Christopher Moraff, In These Times. January 24, 2007.

For more than a decade, the Federal Prison Industries has been forcing inmates to handle toxic "e-waste" containing arsenic, mercury, lead and other cancer-causing chemicals.