Private Prison Accused Of Using Immigrants For Forced Labor

A class action lawsuit alleges CoreCivic, a privately-run immigration prison, forced inmates to do free, and underpaid labor under threat of punishment.

Nick McCann
By Nick McCann
A prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.

SAN DIEGO  — A privately run immigration prison in San Diego forces its inmates to clean their own jail for a dollar a day or less, two prisoners say in a federal class action. Sylvester Owino and Jonathan Gomez sued CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, a Nashville-based corporation that is one of the biggest private

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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.

Roqayah Chamseddine
By Roqayah Chamseddine
prison strike

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 levels had reached dangerous levels. But Dara Folden, a member of the Free Alabama

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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.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona

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 much time by yourself in those conditions. I don’t care who you are, you don’t come out the same person.” Caison was in a

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Mainstream Media Ignores Mass Hunger & Work Strikes By Prisoners Nationwide

‘The repression is very real,’ one union advocate for the incarcerated said. The advocate also reported that a guard in a Wisconsin prison has encouraged other inmates to beat and rape an elderly hunger striker.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona

AUSTIN, Texas --- As hunger strikes and sporadic work stoppages continue at prisons across the country, the historic prison movement and the brutal retaliation inmates have faced because of it remain largely unreported in the mainstream media. The media blackout continues even though tens of thousands of inmates are believed to have taken part

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America’s Female Prison Population Has Grown 800% & Nobody Is Talking About It

About 56 percent of incarcerated women are in jail due to the drug war or over property crimes.

Clarice Palmer
By Clarice Palmer
California Prisons Suing Counties

Holly Harris may wear cowboy boots to work, but the Kentucky mom and Executive Director for the US Justice Action Network (USJAN) is far from your average southerner. This past Saturday, June 25th, Harris talked about her work to a group of journalists and bloggers who traveled to Washington D.C. from different corners of the country to hear

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Lithuania Denies Existence Of Secret CIA Prison Before Human Rights Court

Lithuania denied in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that the country hosted to a secret US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prison, where terrorist suspects allegedly were detained, the Lithuanian deputy justice minister said Thursday.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
A watch tower overlooks the area near the Polish intelligence school just outside of Stare Kiejkuty, Poland, on Friday, Dec. 16, 2005. The installation has become the focal point of allegations of secret CIA prisons in Poland. The United States has denied access of information concerning extraordinary rendition to UK MPs. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

VILNIUS — European Court of Human RightsIn August 2009, ABC News made a claim that Lithuania provided the CIA with a building near Vilnius to detain and possibly interrogate eight al-Qaeda members during the period 2004-2006. "We told the ECHR judges that no secret CIA detention center exists in Lithuania," Paulius Griciunas told a national radio

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