President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Obama offered 102 federal inmates the chance to leave prison early, wielding his clemency powers Oct. 6 as part of his end-of-term push to spur action on criminal justice reform. The latest round of com...
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Judges throw out convictions of 74 military police previously sentenced for murdering 111 inmates By LUCIANA MAGALHAES and JEFFREY T. LEWIS - Wall Street Journal Oct. 4, 2016 SÃO PAULO—Fernanda Vicentina da Silva still vividly remembers standing in line as a nine-...
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by Kevin Gosztola - Shadowproof Concerned with the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ failure to provide medical treatment and their indifference toward CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling’s heart problems, Shadowproof exchanged letters with Sterling to bring more attention to his mistreatmen...
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By Justin Fox - Bloomberg October 3, 2016 About 7 million American men of prime working age (25 through 54) are not in the labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That means they don't have a paid job and haven't been actively looking for one. ...
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Cheri Garcia, founder of Cornbread Hustle, a Dallas staffing agency for felons, speaks to her entrepreneurship program for parolees and people "a little rough around the edges" who want to get their live back on track.By Cheryl Hall - DallasNews.com Sep 2, 2016Cheri Garcia believes in ...
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President sets record for a single monthPresident Obama on Tuesday commuted the sentences for 111 inmates, the latest in his push to ease harsh penalties given tononviolent drug offenders.Obama has been critical of what he has called the “devastating” effects of severe sentences handed down durin...
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By Jack Smith IVJuly 18, 2016You may have heard of the prison industrial complex, but there is also an entire industry that just manages prison phones - the Verizons and AT&Ts of American prisons. Last week, those companies gained major ground in the fight to keep them in check.After legal pr...
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More than 2,500 Texas inmates will participate in a national experiment starting next month, using federal money to take college courses.June 29, 2016For decades, the federal government has banned the use of Pell Grants funds for such rehabilitation efforts. But last week, the Obama administratio...
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Inmates take a class at a prison in San Diego. A new program could provide education funding to as many as twelve thousand people behind bars. PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM HODGSONBy Clint Smith - The New YorkerJUNE 29, 2016Jackson, draped in a clean white T-shirt that rests atop oversized gray pants, slides...