The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation’s jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole…
Prison
Recent reports have highlighted the fact that at least a quarter of the prison population at Chicago’s Cook County Jail suffer from serious mental health…
In 1973, D. L. Rosenhan published a ground-breaking psychiatric study in January 19 issue of Science magazine. The article exposed a serious short-coming in the…
Private prison companies are spending millions of dollars to lobby the U.S. government for harsher immigration laws that, in turn, spike corporate profits by driving…
By Chris Hedges, Truth Dig NEWARK, N.J.—All attempts to reform mass incarceration through the traditional mechanisms of electoral politics, the courts and state and…
County public defender asks the US Department of Justice to investigate claims of ‘sadistic’ treatment including threats of violence if inmates did not comply The…
Today, the latest in health and healing, then a special commentary remembering Danny Schechter. We also cover other topics such as the government withholding documents,…
The host talks with our guest Victoria Redstall, Model, Actress and Advocate for those who are wrongly convicted and on death row. http://ajustcauseradio.podbean.com/mf/web/kjbzcv/AJCRadio032215.mp3 Download this episode…
A United Nations investigator has accused the U.S. of blocking access to prisons—including state and federal facilities where an estimated 80,000 people are in solitary…
Jail is not supposed to be where you put the mentally ill or those too poor to pay bail. Nor is it supposed to be…
In February 2015, The Guardian published a couple of new stories about the connection between the Chicago police department “black site” at Homan Square and…