A nurse helps an old man up from his chair. Holding onto her arms, he steps blindly forward, trusting her to lead him to his spot at the lunch table.
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In the video, Joey Lee Pyatt Jr. is standing shirtless in a dingy kitchen, a blue bandana tied around his neck.
Late last week, I opened my email to find a message with a sad, guilt-trip-laden subject line: “It’s Been Awhile.” I opened it up to a blaring announcement – “WE MISS YOU!” – accompanied by a photo of a woman smiling encouragingly. No, this wasn’t a tender note from a group of sweet long-lost cousins or old high school chums.
In America, and around the world, women suffer more in prison. Most female prisoners are housed with little consideration for their needs as women.
Part 1: Introduction video by Tina Maschi, PhD, LCSW, ACSW, Associate Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service President, National Organization of Forensic Social Work Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine…
To be ensnared in America’s mass incarceration system means being in prison, on parole or probation. After three solid decades of rising arrest rates, there are now approximately 7,163,000 people in the penal system: nearly 10 percent of the population over the age of 18.
A federal court gave California two more years Monday to reduce the population of its overcrowded prisons, yielding to pressure from state officials who said they could meet an impending deadline only by shipping thousands of inmates to other states.
Unbeknownst to many, the prison system has become a for-profit business in which inmates are the product–a system that has shocking similarities to another human-based business from America’s past: slavery.
There are 2.3 million people in US prisons in conditions that are often inhumane and at worst life threatening.
There are fewer institutions more crippling to America than the prison industrial complex. Families are torn apart on a regular basis, and many of these families are black. One athlete in the Super Bowl is giving a face to the tragedy and he is prepared for the biggest moment of his life and a chance to make his family proud.
Today the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed bipartisan sentencing reform legislation that reduces the federal prison population, decreases racial disparities, saves taxpayer money, and reunites nonviolent drug law offenders with their families sooner.
By Andrew Cohen
Oklahoma’s legislature voted to reduce the state’s skyrocketing, budget-busting prison population, but ideological state officials are trying to make sure it doesn’t happen.
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