- Private Prisons Are the Problem, Not the Solution
- The Unbelievable Brutality Unleashed on Kids in For-Profit Prisons--"Privatization of the youth prison industry handed soaring profits to GEO, but a history of brutal injustice to its incarcerated youth and their families."
- Louisiana is the world's prison capital
- Firm Leaves Mississippi After Its Prison Is Called 'Cesspool'
- Private Prison Corporations Are Slave Traders
- America's Top Prison Corporation: A Study in Predatory Capitalism and Cronyism
- Prison Industries: "Don't Let Society Improve or We Lose Business"
- The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death--"Groundbreaking Columbia law school study sets out in shocking detail the flaws that led to Carlos DeLuna's execution in 1989."
- Time doesn't pay, wrongfully imprisoned find--"Alan Northrop served 17 years for a rape and kidnapping he didn't commit. He received no compensation for his time behind bars."
- Free After 25 Years: A Tale Of Murder And Injustice
- Romeo Phillion launches $14-million lawsuit for wrongful conviction--"Romeo Phillion, who spent 31 years in prison before his murder conviction was quashed, launched a $14-million lawsuit against the Ontario government on Thursday."
- Local girl lied about 2001 rape; father set free--"Baur said Cassandra Kennedy will not be prosecuted for her apparent lies about her father, partly because prosecutors do not want to discourage people in similar circumstances from coming forward." And this won't encourage so-called "victims" to lie since there apparently are no repurcussions?
- Largest compilation of exonerations ever finds over 2,000 falsely convicted over past 23 years
- Wrongfully convicted Texas trio exonerated in 1994 robbery
- Bennett Barbour exonerated of rape in Virginia: how the state is botching the DNA retesting and notification of old cases
- Rikers Violence: Out Of Control. Shocking images back up what we've been reporting for years: New York City's jails are houses of horror
- Out of Step With the World: Juvenile Life Without Parole in the United States
- Hieroglyphics turn prisoner away from a life of crime
- The Naked Rambler: the man prepared to go to prison for nudity
- Breast cancer survivor handcuffed and thrown in jail over a mistaken $280 medical bill as 'debtor's prisons' return to the U.S
- Supreme court: immunity for witness grand jury testimony--"The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a government investigator who initiates a criminal case against a private individual and later lies to a grand jury still has immunity from a civil lawsuit over his testimony." Emphasis mine.
- Baltimore police search for suspect in video attack--"Baltimore police said Tuesday they are making progress in their investigation into an attack that left a man beaten, stripped and robbed on the street while onlookers laughed and did nothing to help." They probably haven't watched the Seinfeld finale.
- Think Before Stealing That Soda Refill--"While his charge is petty theft, because of previous petty theft convictions, the charge for drinking the unpaid-for soda was increased from a misdemeanor to a felony."
- Investigators: Tenn. Judge High on Pills in Court--"A Tennessee judge was so addicted to prescription drugs during his final two years on the bench, he was having sex and buying pills during courtroom breaks, at times purchasing from convicts he had previously sentenced...."
- Judge jailed entire court for phone interruption
- Report: Judges Collect More Than $1 Million In Traffic Fines By Calling Them 'Court Costs'
- Oregon judge rules bloggers aren't journalists
- No Contempt, No Jail for Spamming a Judge
