Lethal injections, legal battles and difficulty obtaining drugs have forced a number of states to find alternative ways to carry out the death … [Read more...]
Alabama fails mentally ill inmates in solitary
Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has failed to fix its practice of housing prisoners with “serious mental illness” in solitary confinement, a … [Read more...]
Alabama restores voting rights without notification
Alabama recently passed a law to restore voting rights to most of its citizens with felony records. A federal judge, however, ruled that this new law … [Read more...]
Average inmate pay drops despite billions on prisons
In a billion-dollar prison labor market, wages for incarcerated people nationwide have declined since 2001, a recent report says. The April report by … [Read more...]