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…to America’s full-to-bursting prisons must come together and accept the fact that all felonies are not equal. And that having a gun, even when you weren’t supposed to, does not…

…Given what he later learned, his three-year sentence was an easy pass. He spent time in three prisons during his sentence (frequent movement of prisoners was standard practice of the…

…who demand that we bring terrorists to our shores and put them in our prisons, and who cannot for the life of them understand why anyone would object to that,…

…material written decades ago. 1. “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside,” by Doris Lessing (1986). “How is it that so-called democratic movements don’t make a point of instructing their members…

…. . . and when and where to transfer them.” The administration is reportedly scouting various prisons including facilities in Kansas, South Carolina, and Colorado. According to a White House…

…prisons and investments in communities,” i.e., wealth redistribution. In other words, this has nothing to do with “systemic racism” and everything to do with advancing a “black power” agenda. This…

…earn up to 20 percent of their terms from vocational programs. Largely due to these reforms, Texas was able to close three prisons and crime dropped to its lowest since…

…about the president’s last term, his desire to reform the federal criminal justice system is among the most laudable. Thousands of Americans languish in federal prisons on drug charges, ruining…

…my own analogy, Grandpa from the Simpsons. Secondly, Hillary Clinton’s record on criminal justice reforming isn’t exactly stellar. A lot of the overpopulation problems prisons face right now stems from…

…prisons. A fictional Dalton administration threatens war with Saudi Arabia over a single terrorist attack while the horribly real Obama administration gets rolled by a state sponsor of terrorism in…

…Los Angeles, and she used her financial sense to help start an elementary school for black children, gave money to the poor, visited prisons, and tried to help her community…

…that fight to keep nonviolent drug offenders in federal prison, sometimes for decades. Since 1988, Congress has increased spending on federal prisons by 45 percent while slashing spending on state…

…allow biologically male athletes to compete with women without surgery, and the DOJ mandated that all prisons consider sexual identity over biological sex when deciding where to place inmates. And…

…obituary about a teenager killed by gang violence and do not see the tragedy of it, that is on us. If we see prisons bursting with broken dreams and do…

…were she and everyone else released from their rocky prisons. If we truly want to be happy, if we truly want to overcome the effects of abuse, we need to…

…the Congressional Research Service. The number of prisoners the federal Bureau of Prisons house has increased from 25,000 in fiscal year 1980 to more than 194,000 as of July 2016….

…This was the exact position of the Gnostics. A Gnostic believes our flesh imprisons us in various fleshly designations—our place in space and time; our sex; our family and culture;…

…throwing young people into prisons only helps creates more criminals. And the scenes of Naz dealing with harsh life on Rikers Island (Michael K. Williams is great, as usual) are…

…judges to consider plea bargains and reduced sentences when they make sense. Ultimately, Californians will be the losers here, not Turner. With prisons already critically overcrowded, mandatory minimums won’t help…

…housing. The Department of Justice has instructed prisons to place inmates based on identity rather than biology. And sports teams from the middle school level up to the Olympic Games…

…many children: because of their mandatory, regimented nature, government schools often promote hierarchical behaviors among children not unlike the hierarchical dynamics that often develop in prisons. Increased cases of school…

…chaotic, murderous hotbed for ISIS. Fighters belonging to that terror group have begun to spill over into neighboring Tunisia. ISIS also has secret prisons in the region, where they torture…

…government. Currently thousands of citizens are held and tortured in political prisons. Not too long ago, a political cartoonist was imprisoned for negatively depicting Bashar in a cartoon. The cartoonist…

…own prisons of social media, of screen-saturated soft authoritarianism, still struggling to harness the amazing technological appendages we’ve grafted onto our all-too-human selves. The show asks: As we spend our…

…Raúl Castro, Obama was willing to stage, without irony, a press event in a country that routinely imprisons journalists. The list goes on and on. Yet here’s Politico’s Jack Shafer,…

…men like him (who’ve always been at the forefront of abortion advocacy) to look beyond their intellectual prisons and to try to think with their hearts. Life is the essential…

…prisons?’ said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?’ Some of us do not have Scrooge’s problem—we are not ignorant…

…mechanisms of mob psychology if we are to keep our minds free and retain our freedom. In her book, “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside,” Lessing asked: “How is it…

…forced release of thousands of convicted felons, so the next logical step would be to close all state prisons and provide miscreants with therapy and understanding. Trade Them Land for…

…for public safety, and condoning their actions as justified—in effect, breeding insurrectionists ripe for recruitment by terrorists. Jails, prisons, gangs, and militant groups are ideal recruiting opportunities for radical Islamists….

…the high rate of literacy in Cuba—which sounds great, so long as you forget that this is a country that imprisons librarians. Or maybe you never knew that Cuba arrests…

…the very moment he was found guilty in the second trial, he realized there must be innocent people in prisons who lacked the financial resources to fight for justice. He…

…Americans, one Canadian, and six South Koreans as political hostages. Let’s also not forget that many North Korean citizens have languished in prisons and labor camps under this repressive and…

…of male guards. In Torres v. Wisconsin Department of Health & Social Services, the Seventh Circuit concluded that a state could exclude male guards from its female prisons in order…

…regulation or regarding people who reside in institutions like prisons, mental hospitals, or nursing homes. It specifies that state and local governments can’t subject religious organizations to land-use regulations that…

…Probably not. Thirty years ago, Nobel laureate Doris Lessing wrote about this deficit in general knowledge. In her book, “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside,” Lessing theorized that power elites…