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Lee Camp: How to End the US Prison State Quick and Easy

2.3 million people are behind bars in the United States. Here’s the quick way to get that number down to… zero. (Give or take a few)

by Lee Camp

California Maybe Replacing Its ‘Prison-Industrial Complex’ With Something Far Worse

The main players in California’s “treatment-industrial complex” are the very same ones involved in the for-profit prison industry.

California Maybe Replacing Its ‘Prison-Industrial Complex’ With Something Far Worse

California made headlines last week when Governor Jerry Brown allocated a record $11.4 billion to the state’s corrections department in his May Revision to the budget, translating to $75,560 per individual — the highest per-inmate cost in the

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Media Silent As U.S. Prisoners Continue To Hunger Strike Abysmal Conditions

Prisoners across the U.S. have been holding hunger and labor strikes since last year, with tens of thousands of inmates protesting abuse and poor conditions. But news reports on the strikes have been few and far between, leaving prisoners’ requests for humane treatment in the dark.

Media Silent As U.S. Prisoners Continue To Hunger Strike Abysmal Conditions

On Oct. 30, 2016, Robert Earl Council was found sprawled unconscious on the floor of his cell in Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility after being on hunger strike for 10 days. Medical staff at the prison force-fed him intravenously, as his blood sugar

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New Documentary Examines One State’s Struggle To Reform Solitary Confinement

More than thirty states have pursued some kind of reform of their policies for solitary confinement. PBS FRONTLINE’s “Last Days Of Solitary” looks at Maine’s attempts to reform the practice.

New Documentary Examines One State’s Struggle To Reform Solitary Confinement

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. “You lose all feeling. You become immune to everything,” says Sam Caison, a prisoner who has been in and out of solitary confinement. “You’re not the same after spending so

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Kevin Gosztola

Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure."

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The War On Drugs Is A War On Minorities: Former El Reno Prison Inmate Freed By Obama Speaks Out

Jason Hernandez, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1998 for his role in a drug conspiracy, starting when he was only 15.

The War On Drugs Is A War On Minorities: Former El Reno Prison Inmate Freed By Obama Speaks Out

President Obama became the first sitting president in history to visit a federal prison Thursday when he toured the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma. After passing through several security gates, Obama stepped inside a 9-by-10 cell and walked through a section called Cell Block B that houses prisoners who are part of a drug

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