Prison Conditions

FCC Changes Position on Relief to Poor Families of Prisoners

Mass Incarceration Costs $182 Billion Every Year, Without Adding Much to Public Safety

RIKERS Film Addresses Violence in America’s Prisons

EJI Welcomes Justice Department Challenge to Alabama Prison Conditions

Justice Department to End Use of Private Prisons

Investigation Reveals Pattern of Prisoner Abuse in Private Prison Transport Industry

Albert Woodfox Released After 40 Years in Solitary Confinement

Private Prison Phone Companies Lobbied for Criminalization of Cell Phones in Prisons

President Obama Bans Solitary Confinement for Juveniles in Federal Prisons

Homicide Rate in Alabama Prisons Highest in History

Justice Department Investigation Leads to Guilty Plea in Alabama Police Brutality Case

EJI Remembers the Life and Work of Prisoners’ Rights Champion Al Bronstein

FCC Officially Reduces Prison Phone Call Rates

Use of Solitary Confinement Is Reduced in California

Solitary Confinement Leads to “Social Death”

U.S. Department of Education Launches Second Chance Pell Pilot Program for Incarcerated Individuals