Supreme Court orders California to release convicts to afford health care for those remaining prisoners
Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to cut the prison population, California holds 136,000 inmates as of 2014 per CDCR report. Of the 2013-2014 budget, 7% was spent on corrections and was set to rise More...
Marco Rubio backed by ‘Big Prison,’ GEO, millions in privately run prison money
Big Oil, Big Pharma and the gun lobby are widely known contributors to political candidates, but a new Washington Post article shed light on the impact of “Big Prison” – millions from privately-run More...
Tyshinia Brewster, New York prison guard, pregnant from inmate, charged with rape
Tyshinia Love Brewster was a correction officer at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Poughkeepsie, New York, but now finds herself six months pregnant, carrying the child of one of the inmates. Brewster was More...
