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

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

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

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 ...

but prison rights activists largely oppose the use of prison labor, which they call exploitative. Despite the loss, the prison rights advocates will continue "fighting to have additional wages ...

A Delaware County, Pa., corrections officer was denied a trial under the Family and Medical Leave Act because the county didn’t become his “successor” employer when it resumed running his prison, a ...

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 ...