In his first week in office, President Biden issued a number of executive orders – including one to end the use of private prisons. Private, for-profit prisons are some of the most hideous places in a criminal justice system already filled with degrading and...
Excerpted from a message from the No Justice Under Capitalism Coalition … San Quentin medical staff have been pressuring prisoners to sign waiver forms accepting legal responsibility for their own deaths from COVID-19. That, despite more than 10 months of...
In countries all around the world, prisoners are stuck in dangerously overcrowded detention facilities where physical distancing and self-isolation are essentially impossible. In normal times, prisons are almost always extremely unhygienic, sometimes without soap or...
Inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas rioted on Thursday. They raged through offices, broke windows, and set fires. Initial reports by prison authorities said no one was injured. Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) officials said they...
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world. While the U.S. has less than five percent of the world’s population, it has about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners – half a million more than China, which has five times as many people as the U.S. There are...
