Pelican Bay Redux Pelican Bay Redux
As prisoners in California resume their hunger strike, it’s important to consider what legal strategies might end the cruel practice of long-term solitary confinement.
Sep 28, 2011 / Simon van Zuylen-Wood
From Attica to Pelican Bay: How To Heed the Lessons of a Prison Uprising From Attica to Pelican Bay: How To Heed the Lessons of a Prison Uprising
Forty years after Attica, the US prison population is ten times larger.
Sep 12, 2011 / Michael Ratner
The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later
When inmates at Attica took over the prison in September of 1971, they were fighting for their basic rights. But their demands were ultimately met with tear gas and bullets.
Sep 9, 2011 / Video / Francis Reynolds and Liliana Segura
The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later
When inmates at Attica took over the prison in September of 1971, they were fighting for their basic rights. But their demands were ultimately met with tear gas and bullets.
Sep 9, 2011 / Francis Reynolds and Liliana Segura
After the Attica Uprising After the Attica Uprising
The history of the massacre at Attica should be used to challenge the continued injustices of mass incarceration.
Sep 9, 2011 / asha bandele
Attica at 40 Attica at 40
Four decades after the bloodiest prison massacre in US history, we have yet to accept the basic fact that prisoners are human.
Sep 7, 2011 / Editorial / Liliana Segura
Jeremy Scahill: No Accountability for US Torture Jeremy Scahill: No Accountability for US Torture
Despite Obama's claims that closing Guantanamo would take priority on his agenda as president, infamous Bush-era policies have quietly expanded under his administration.
How ALEC Turned Prisoners into Corporate America’s Cheap Labor Force How ALEC Turned Prisoners into Corporate America’s Cheap Labor Force
What do breaded chicken patties, office chairs and cruise missiles used in Libya have in common? They are all made by America's 100,000-strong secret workforce: prisoners.
Aug 5, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room
‘Cruel & Unusual’ Prisons ‘Cruel & Unusual’ Prisons
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, talks to Liliana Segura about the Supreme Court ruling on overcrowding in Californi...
Jun 1, 2011 / Editorial / Liliana Segura
Putting People in Jail Does Not Lower the Crime Rate Putting People in Jail Does Not Lower the Crime Rate
New statistics on US crime released by the FBI reveal that crime has dropped significantly over the past few years while prison populations have exploded, putting huge strains on s...
May 26, 2011 / Nation in the News / Press Room