Prison

This category is for documents, allegations, or issues of human rights abuses in U.S. Prisons.

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Red Onion State Prison Super-Maximum Prison in Virginia. "The day I arrived I was told that I was at Red Onion now and if I act up they would kill me and there was nothing anyone could or would do about it."
Native American Spiritual Freedom in Prison Native Web's views on spiritual freedom in U.S. prison
Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants Crime reduction through reform of the criminal justice system in America. CURE
The Fortune Society Staffed primarily by ex-offenders, the society is a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime. Helps ex-offenders and at-risk youth break the cycle of crime and incarceration through a broad range of services.
Frontline Primer How the "Drug War" has led to numerous imprisonments with little or no evidence except from "snitches," reducing their own sentences by fingering innocent (often black) people.