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06/20/2021

Lawyers representing Danbury federal prison inmates claim inmates who test positive for...

05/21/2021

At least 21 red states have said they will stop paying the federal supplement.

05/21/2021

President Biden must at the very least allow people to serve the rest of their sentences at home. Anything less would needlessly hurt thousands of people.

05/20/2021

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state last year, charging that its Department of Corrections did not provide adequate protections for inmates.

05/20/2021

New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Anthony Annucci knows people in prison age faster — which only worsens New York's incarceration crisis. must pass Elder Parole (S15/A3475) and give people 55 and older a chance for parole AND pass Fair & Timely Parole (S1415/A4231) to make parole release more just.

05/20/2021

05/19/2021

Since March of last year, some 25,496 inmates have been placed in home confinement, including those who have already completed their sentences. But, on Jan. 15, just a few days before the Trump administration ended, the office of legal counsel in the Department of Justice issued a memo saying that t...

05/17/2021

The Biden administration will soon have to decide whether to send back to prison thousands of inmates who were transferred to home confinement after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

05/17/2021

"We don't have to be soft on crime,” Armstrong has said. “We just have to be smarter about how we deal with this. ..."

05/16/2021

Ian Manuel was sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was just 14 years old for a non-homicide offense.

He’s now a poet advocating for judicial reform. Full interview: https://on.cc.com/3hjHHF9

05/16/2021

John Brookins’ story is filled with pain and injustice. But more than that, John’s story is a love story, one that goes all the way back to his childhood, when he met a girl named Karen at the Salvation Army Church.