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Hatty Lee by Leticia Miranda - Monday, May 14 2012 When Martha Wright’s grandson was moved to a prison outside of her hometown of Washington, DC., she didn’t expect that a short 5-minute conversation with him could cost up to $18. “You just have to get everything out in one line,” she laughs....

by Crystal Cruz  -May 22, 2013PHOENIX -- Convicted murderer Jodi Arias has big plans for life in prison.Arias shared them with the jury on Tuesday."In prison there are programs I can start and people that I can help and programs that I can participate in," Arias told jurors.According to...

Richmond Pulse/New America Media, News ReportPeter Schurmann and Donny Lumpkins  -  May 15, 2013RICHMOND, Calif. – At the West County Detention Facility, inmates can pay upwards of $20 for a five-minute phone call to friends, relatives or lawyers. While the high rates are a cash cow for the ...

By Amanda Peterson Beadle - Nov 16, 2011 Last year the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, receives $200 a night for eac...

      (Credit: Creative Commons) By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee on May 16, 2013 Long known for exploiting inmate needs, immigration detention centers that generally contract out services like their phone systems, are generously paid by the ...

For decades inmate fire crews have helped battle wildland fires in the county- File photoBy Dana Littlefield  -  MAY 17, 2013SAN DIEGO- One of the consequences of a 2011 state law aimed at relieving prison overcrowding is that it also reduced the pool of lower-level offenders eligible for inmate ...

ADMAXA federal isolation facility that's "pretty close" to hell. By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella  -  Wed. May 1, 2013 The "Alcatraz of the Rockies"Bacote et al. v. Federal Bureau of Prisons "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." So goes the old say...

Why did a nice girl like me date an inmate?Illustration by Robert Neubecker.By Melody Wilson - Thursday, May 16, 2013“I love you.” They were words I had longed to hear from Justin for years, but when he finally spoke them, something held me back. Three layers of Plexiglass and armed guards, to be...

By John BiggsAndrew “Weev” Auernheimer has been placed in “administrative segregation,” prison shorthand for solitary confinement for “investigative purposes.” Supporters believe he was locked down and given no Internet access because of his ability to send Tweets to a third party who relayed the...