News & Commentary about Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Conditions

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Oct 18, 2018

Louisiana’s Infamous Angola Prison Goes on Trial

Apr 23, 2018

Why Mississippi Officials Needed to Answer for Inhumane and Dangerous Prison Conditions

Aug 16, 2017

Overcrowding in Nebraska’s Prisons Is Causing a Medical and Mental Health Care Crisis

Mar 3, 2017

A Private Prison Already Failed This Texas County. And Now Officials Want It Back?

Aug 19, 2016

The Justice Department’s Call to Axe Private-Prison Contracts Is A Victory. ICE Must Now Do the Same to End Federal Prison Profiteering.

Map of BOP Private Prisons Inside the U.S.

Aug 12, 2016

End Prisons-for-Profit

Photo of Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover, Malala, and a toothbrush

Aug 17, 2015

Why Is Chelsea Manning Prohibited From Having Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair Issue & The Senate Torture Report?

President Obama visits El Reno in Oklahoma.

Jul 17, 2015

What President Obama Didn’t Hear or Smell at El Reno

Jun 23, 2015

Justice Kennedy Says Make My Day on Solitary

Light streaming through a barred window casts a shadow of the bars the floor of a prison cell

Apr 3, 2015

Everything That Is Wrong With U.S. Prisons in One Picture