The prison industry is comprised of over 4,000 corporations that profit off of incarceration. These corporations have a vested financial interest in expanding the reach of our carceral system and...

San Francisco could become the first city in the country to stop charging extra for jail calls and commissary items.

One of the U.N. experts who compiled the report after visiting the U.S. earlier this year said its findings "point to the critical need for comprehensive reform."

On the hook to repay $1.3 billion of debt this year, the nation's largest prison telecom company, Securus, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its failure would represent a remarkable victory for advoca...

Class action lawsuit filed against Gov. Jared Polis, Corrections officials allege abuse inside Colorado’s prisons

Families of the incarcerated warned corrections officials that the lack of food in prisons has gotten to the point that those incarcerated “eat toilet paper” to dull hunger. Food conditions and...

The Texas prison system received $1.1 million from Operation Lone Star to purchase machines so inmates can make concertina razor wire and barbed wire.

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal...

Inspectors for the Department of Homeland Security found dangerous problems in immigration detention facilities. For years, the government fought NPR's efforts to obtain its often damning reports.

Lawsuits filed on behalf of children, parents of people who are or were housed in the jails in Genesee, St. Clair counties.

California is the second state to mandate free calls in state prisons. The move is restoring frayed family relationships and may reduce recidivism rates.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill aimed at easing the cost for prisoners to call family and friends.

The Beverly Hills private equity titan faced calls for his ouster over his firm’s acquisition of Securus Technologies.

Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note.

Thanks to a critical exception to the 13th Amendment.

My little girls want to talk to their daddy — but we can’t afford it. We couldn’t afford it before the pandemic, and now things are worse. Their daddy — my husband — i…

Prison slavery produces billions of dollars for the economy with many corporations taking advantage.

Lava for Good founder Jason Flom on artists and music companies partnering with corporations profiting from the prison industry. 

Alachua County leaders took a significant step Thursday toward giving inmates free and unlimited phone calls from jail.

Texas prison inmates are making cotton face masks that will be given to first responders for free to alleviate a shortage of medical materials during the coronavirus pandemic, state Sen. John...

A bill just advanced in the Senate that would help the incarcerated communicate with their loved ones.

Corizon Health, facing mounting debt, executed a controversial bankruptcy maneuver. Hundreds of prisoner's medical malpractice claims were left in limbo.

We need our elected officials to provide free communication in our prisons and jails.

Did you know that slavery is still legal? The Thirteenth Amendment included an insidious exception, it's time we #EndTheException. Join the movement to pass the Abolition Amendment.

Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states.

Louisville is looking for a new vendor to provide phone and video call services from the city jail. Unlike its previous contract with Securus…

As the nation this week made Juneteenth a federal holiday, lawmakers revived calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that has allowed another form of slavery to endure.

The suit says inmates have to work for little pay - and sometimes no pay - in jobs that benefit government entities or private companies.

Legislation pending before House and Senate to keep families connected