incarceration Archive
Jim Roberts, CEOVoice of our CEO Prison is no place anyone would want to be; restricting, dark, unsafe and punitive. It is a place we isolate a segment of our society whose conduct prevents them from remaining within the larger …
By Jeff Wallace | March 30, 2016 (Part 1 of 2) Solitary confinement is a practice that has been used in the U.S. prison system since 1829. It is based on a Quaker belief that prisoners isolated in stone cells …
By Daniel Macallair | March 16, 2016 Unprecedented declines in youth crime, combined with state policies designed to restrict state institutional commitments, have caused , as I wrote in a previous column. The crashing number of confined youths is not …
Millions of Us Are Affected by Draconian Prison Penalties By Kate Boccia | March 7, 2016 A crisis is defined as “a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events is determined.” It is …
By Sarah Barr The American Friends Service Committee is the latest group to call for investors to move their money away from private prison companies, saying it’s unethical to profit from prisoners. As part of a new campaign, the AFSC …
