In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

George "Ashanti" Witherspoon was released from prison in the summer of 1999 and officially paroled in December of 1999.

It's a look at horrific prison conditions, detailed by prisoners on contraband cell phones, that becomes a muckraking murder ...

Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.

A small herd of guests — including Gerretsen and staff members, media, local farmers and founding members of the Save Our Prison Farms campaign, Pen Farm Herd Co-op and Prison Farm Advisory ...

VELLORE: Vellore Central Prison has introduced the Freedom Poultry Farm, an initiative aimed at providing fresh poultry to the public. The farm, located adjacent to the prison, started functioning ...

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg is a Senior Reporter for The Appeal. Based in New Jersey, she writes on prison and jail conditions, wrongful convictions, and the criminalization of disabilities. Elizabeth ...

The state’s Office of Juvenile Justice (OJJ) began incarcerating kids and young adults at Jackson Parish Jail in 2023 after a federal judge ordered them to move all children out of the Louisiana State ...

Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...

It eventually evolved into the system of prison farms, where prisoners—often ... The Bracero Program brought five million farm and railroad workers into the country from Mexico—a precursor ...