Texas’s prison system from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s used perhaps one of the clearest continuances of slavery, the prison plantation system. Prisoners were used for agricultural work and ...
Richard Viguerie had an outstanding op-ed yesterday in the New York Times on the conservative case for prison reform. An excerpt: Conservatives known for being tough on crime should now be equally ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Corrections in California is testing a new model aimed at rehabilitation in hopes to lower violence behind bars ...
Candidates across Latin America have embraced mega-prisons, seeking to replicate the policies of Nayib Bukele, the president ...
“Welcome to Room 19. This is the room we began in.” Todd Cioffi, director of the Calvin Prison Initiative program, begins the four-hour tour inside Handlon Correctional Facility. “When we first walked ...
The British government said criminals could earn earlier release under a new program to cut the prison population, citing Texas as an inspiration. By Lizzie Dearden Reporting from London In February, ...
El Salvador once had one of the highest murder rates in the world, with prisons controlled by gangs from the inside. Under President Nayib Bukele, that system was dismantled and replaced with ...
LOS ANGELES—Prison reforms in California aimed at rehabilitation and release are a ticking time bomb, according to current and formerly incarcerated individuals, whistleblowers, active and retired ...
SAN CRISTOBAL Dominican Republic (Reuters) - Gone are the satellite dishes that once crowded the prison rooftop, feeding signals to flat-screen TVs in the private suites for which drug lords and other ...