Private prison investing can mean different things. Investors are often supporting private prison investing without knowing ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

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

As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are inmates from California's prison system has drawn significant attention in news ...

In New York, chairs in classrooms, street signs and license plates have one thing in common:  They are all produced by prison labor. As of 2024, around 1.8 million people were incarcerated in both ...

Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman sat down at our studio in Park City to discuss their remarkable investigative documentary.

FOLSOM, Calif. — At the edge of the American River near downtown Folsom is an old brick building that played a big part in ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

Penal reforms will place more emphasis on the “recovery” of convicts instead of their “punishment” to prevent recidivism, but ...