“'There are three kinds of lies,' Mark Twain was fond of saying: 'Lies, damned lies and statistics.' Selectively presented statistics can be used as much to distort or obscure as they can to...
"On Monday, 30,000 prisoners in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in California went on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement and security unit conditions -- risking...
The way thousands of California inmates tell it, there's prison, and then there's prison. Locked in windowless cells for as much as 23 hours each day, inmates held in solitary confinement have little...
In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country. If they...
The Guantánamo parole board has cleared another long-held Yemeni captive for release with security arrangements that satisfy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. Last month, Zahir Hamdoun’s attorney...
...This decision was condemned by more than 100 Fordham faculty members, as well as Ahmad Awad, who spearheaded the drive to launch an SJP club on campus. Awad, who graduated last year, is now the...
Amanda Alexander, Michigan, is the f ounding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center, a Senior Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School , and a nationally recognized scholar of...
Nsombi Lambright, Mississippi, is the Executive Director of One Voice, a statewide leadership development and policy advocacy organization, headquartered in Jackson, MS. The mission of One Voice is...
...“The Biden administration has rightly withdrawn the government appeals of appellate court decisions enjoining the Trump DHS’s public charge rule, clearing the way at last for this unlawful rule to...
...Attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights are representing Diamond in her quest to be transferred to a female prison. Her lawsuit, filed in November...
