Three California Department of Corrections inmates involved in the prison hunger strike have committed suicide. CDCR is making it very difficult for family members and advocates to get any information on these recent deaths. Official reports are claiming that these deaths are unrelated to the recent hunger strikes in these prisons. Many people believe that [...]

As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often without cause. Every day in the US, tens of thousands of prisoners languish in “the hole”. Most are prisoners have committed minor disciplinary infractions within prison or otherwise run afoul of corrections staff while only a few of them are prison [...]

Palestinian women suffer from poor living conditions within the prison walls of Israel.  The majority of prison facilities were designed to accommodate men.  International laws have been drafted to protect prisoners, yet Israel breaches the prisoners rights for justice.  Prisons such as Telmond, Damon and Al-Jalameh do not meet the minimum living conditions required by [...]

Robert King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace are three black men who have served time at Angola. Robert King has been in solitary confinement for over twenty-nine years because he allegedly stabbed and killed a white prison guard in the 1970’s. All evidence in the case, however, reveals that King likely had nothing to do [...]

Non-violent immigrant prisoners at Reeves Detention Center in Texas took resistive action on two separate occasions this year.  Inmates tired of the inhuman treatment and being denied due process, broke cell windows, ripped sinks off the walls, and took two-prison guards hostage. Inmates were upset with every aspect of the prison including the lack of [...]