Just A Guy, Prisonmovement AlterNet: PEEK. October 30, 2009. The vast majority of prisoners using cell phones are just tying to stay connected to family, friends and loved ones.
Jessica Pupovac, Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 12, 2009. While other states release low-risk, high-cost prisoners, CA officials want to jail another terminal prisoner, on taxpayers' dime.
Isaac-Davy Aronson, The Faster Times. August 17, 2009. A recent riot at the California Institution for Men left 175 prisoners injured and 1,600 with nowhere to go. How did it get this bad?
Sasha Abramsky, Comment Is Free. August 8, 2009. For years, California has prioritized incarceration over all other social investments. Now it's being forced to release 40,000 prisoners in two years.
Hans Bennett, AlterNet. July 21, 2009. As the incarceration rate of U.S. women skyrockets, an important book shines new light on the struggles of women prisoners.
Tamar Todd, AlterNet. March 17, 2009. People are serving 25 years to life in California for drug possession, for stealing a pizza, and in one especially sad case, chocolate chip cookies.
Cara, Feministe AlterNet: Immigration. March 12, 2009. "The U.S. Justice Department has launched a civil-rights investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office."
Silja J.A. Talvi, In These Times. March 6, 2009. This is the right political moment for Obama to enact major progressive reforms in all avenues of the drug war and our justice system.
Beth Schwartzapfel, The Nation. February 13, 2009. From Victoria's Secret to Starbucks, prisoners have long been exploited by companies that cash in on Valentine's Day.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 5, 2008. Montell Johnson was sent from California to Illinois to be executed. His sentence was commuted. Now he's dying from medical neglect.
Heidi Strupp, New America Media AlterNet: PEEK. October 29, 2008. Prop. 9 asks taxpayers to pay to incarcerate those who cost the most to confine yet pose the least threat to public safety.
Lys Anzia, Women News Network. September 23, 2008. Physical and psychological abuse are rampant in women's prisons from the U.S. to Canada to Pakistan.
Anthony Papa, Drug Policy Alliance. September 23, 2008. Exercising the right to vote is important part of prisoner rehabilitation, but over 5 million convicted felons are barred from doing so.
Emily Jane Goodman, The Nation. September 6, 2008. Prisoners across the country are facing court fees, arrest fees and booking fees in addition to their sentences -- and states are raking in the cash.
Johann Hari, Huffington Post. August 13, 2008. Under the twisted logic of the "war on drugs," the answer is yes, along with Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and nearly half of the U.S. population.
Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. August 11, 2008. With former prisoners and their families at the helm, the movement to abolish supermax prisons and end solitary confinement is gaining ground.
Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn. June 12, 2008. At Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison, which sits on a former slave plantation, prisoners are doing more than surviving. They are organizing.
Fred Davie, Public/Private Ventures. April 6, 2008. A stunning percentage of people released from prison are back behind bars in three years. The Second Chance Act is an attempt to change this.
Jessica Hoffmann, make/shift. April 4, 2008. It's time for white feminists to challenge their own privilege, listen to all voices and take on the issues that matter.
John Tarleton, AlterNet. March 27, 2008. With a progressive new governor and state Republicans on the verge of extinction, New York may soon be ready to "drop the Rock".
