Cheese has got to be the best creation since sliced bread. And don’t even get me started on what happens when you put those two…
When Frederick Hutson landed in prison at the age of 24 on a drug trafficking charge in Florida, he was surprised to learn that it…
Before Jamal Tate decided to be a college student, he took a diversion. He went to jail once. Then again. And finally, a third time.…
*A report released in 2009 detailed how minority women account for almost 50 percent of women in jail. The numbers showed that combined…
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-24-year-old, Rocrast Mack, died after being brutally beaten by six prison guards after he had an incident with a female prison guard. Mack was sentenced to 20 years in jail for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer when he was 18 years old. The Huffington Post reports: Severely overcrowded, underfunded […]
With 2.3 million people behind bars, America leads the world in incarceration. The U.S. prison population has more than doubled in the past 15 years. Despite the fact that African Americans and Latino Americans are less than 30% of the country, they comprise more than 60% of its inmates. See Also: Ever Been To Europe? […]
While comparisons between the U.S. prison system and American slavery have long been made, the relationship is even more stark when you examine the numbers. According to U.S. Bureau of Justice estimates, as of 2008 more than 846,000 black men were in U.S. prisons, constituting 40.2 percent of all inmates in the system. Michelle Alexander, a […]
If you thought slavery or human exploitation was over, think again. Many human rights organizations are condemining what they call human slavery in which Wall Street investors and big companies are investing in the prison industry as they don’t have to worry about strikes, vacations, compensation time or unemployment insurance. They dont have to deal […]
Drugs and weapons aren’t the only contraband in prisons these days. The latest underground currency among inmates is an item most of us consider harmless: the cell phone. And so far, prison officials are fighting a losing battle to keep inmates from obtaining cell phones and using them to communicate with people both inside and […]
