prison reform

By Fizz Perkal | – (Inequality.org) – A nationwide strike takes charge at everything from slavery to sentencing. Organizers say it could be the largest U.S. prison resistance action to date. As wildfires rage across California, some of the people risking their lives to fight them are paid only a few dollars a day. These […]

African-Americans

Thousands of US Citizens Jailed Over Debts as Small as US$28

Juan Cole

TeleSur | – – One in three Americans has been reported to a private collection agency with the majority of cases affecting Latin American and African-American communities. The United States, where the streets are paved with gold and US$28 can send a young single mother or an 80-year-old grandmother to jail for a week or […]

prison reform

White House Admits Prison spending has grown 3x as fast as Education for Decades

contributors

TeleSur | – – U.S. state and local spending on prisons and jails grew at three times the rate of spending on schools over the last 33 years as the number of people behind bars ballooned under a spate of harsh sentencing laws, a government report released Thursday said. U.S. Secretary of Education John King […]