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Wrongfully Convicted Man Released From Prison After Serving 32 Years

What does prison abolition mean to the mother whose son has been decapitated?

Delaware Prison Hostage Situation Comes To An End

Justice Department To Investigate Alabama Prison Where Inmates Went On Strike

Prison Guards Join Inmates In Strike Over Labor Practices

Don’t Celebrate Just Yet, The Private Prison Industry Will Still Thrive

Obama Grants 214 Commutations For Drug Offenders

Ava Duvernay’s New Documentary on Mass Incarceration Will Change The Game

President Obama Awards 12,000 Inmates With Pell Grants

Rapist Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison

20-Year-Old Ferguson Protestor Serving 8-Year Prison Sentence

Former Black Panther, Albert Woodfox, Freed From Jail After 43 Years

Daniel Holtzclaw Sentenced to 263 Years in Prison

Rape of Teen Inmates Is Prevalent

Despite Law, Imprisoned Mothers Still Shackled While Giving Birth

Marissa Alexander Released from Prison

Record 346 inmates die, dozens of guards fired in Florida prisons

Lawsuit: Central Park Five want $52 million from state

Marissa Alexander takes 3 year plea deal

Report: poor black women evicted as much as black men are incarcerated

Man released after serving 15 years behind bars for crime he didn’t commit

Report: blacks in Minneapolis 11 times more likely to be arrested

Birmingham man receives just $1,000 from $460,000 police brutality settlement

Report: Racial bias continues to taint the capital punishment system in the United States

Breaking: Michael Dunn gets life for Jordan Davis killing

Inmate beaten to death at Florida jail after reporting threats by guard

California equalizes state’s drug sentencing

Wrongfully convicted man gets statue in Texas

Judge signs $41 million Central Park Five settlement

Innocent North Carolina brothers freed after serving 30 years behind bars

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