Betty Brink, Ms. Magazine. October 20, 2008. Women inmates die and suffer from medical neglect in a prison system that is much more of a threat to them than they are to anyone else.
Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check. April 3, 2008. One in 100 American adults are incarcerated. Their reproductive rights are crucial in the struggle for social justice.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 19, 2008. In the scheme of human rights and the U.S. criminal justice system, the case of the "Angola 3" is one of the great injustices of our time.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. February 28, 2008. Military spending and incarceration rates are also both cornerstones of the booming Republican public sector economy.
Silja J.A. Talvi, Colors Northwest. February 2, 2008. A justice system reporter explains how she fell in love with a jail-bound man and how their relationship was strained by his prison sentence.
Bean, Lawyers, Guns and Money AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 17, 2008. While women are being incarcerated in record numbers, the abuse they face in jail remains invisible.
Tijn Touber, Helene de Puy, Ode. December 25, 2007. One organization, the Insight Prison Project, focuses its energies on rehabilitating communities rather than punishing individuals.
Kalani Key, New America Media. December 7, 2007. Incarcerated transgender women are assigned to men's prisons and face unique problems when they arrive. This is one woman's story of survival.
Daniel Lazare, The Nation. August 20, 2007. With five percent of the world's population, the U.S. has close to a quarter of the world's prisoners. How did the American criminal justice system go so wrong?
Liliana Segura, AlterNet: PEEK. August 17, 2007. Liliana Segura: Last year there was a 21 percent jump in sexual violence in US prisons and in more than half the cases, the perpetrators were guards.
Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, The Nation. March 20, 2007. As in the historical Dred Scott and Amistad cases, the Supreme Court must once again rule on whether the executive branch of the government can seize, imprison, and abuse people without allowing an appeal to the court.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. February 28, 2007. Private prisons make money from locking up immigrant families -- including young children -- indefinitely.
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.
Marc Mauer, TomPaine.com. December 22, 2006. The United States has now become the world leader in its rate of incarceration, locking up its citizens at 5-8 times the rate of other industrialized nations.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. December 5, 2006. Black female inmates outnumber white female inmates three to one, and their punishments don't always fit their crimes.
Jackie Jones, Black America Web. November 28, 2006. Prison reform advocates say that the new Democratic majority in Congress may end America's sentencing policy which has black defendants receiving substantially more prison time for drug possession.
