China’s crackdown on ethnic Uighurs in the western part of the country includes a vast network of at least 124 concentration camps along with scores of labor camps and prisons, according to a dissident Uighur group. U.S. officials say there are also indications that China is expanding the use of the concentration camps in Xinjiang […]
Network of Chinese Concentration Camps for Uighurs Uncovered…
U.S. Prisoners Have Lost a Combined 20,000 Years of Life to False Convictions…
In 2018 alone, wrongly convicted prisoners lost more than 1,600 years of life behind bars. That’s a new record, according to the annual report from The National Registry of Exonerations, which tracks all exonerations from 1989 onward. In 2018, 151 people were freed from serving sentences for crimes they did not commit. They had served […]
Another Prison Phone Service Caught Recording Privileged Conversations and Passing Them Onto Law Enforcement…
A few years back, prison communications provider Securus was caught — via hacker-obtained data — recording privileged calls between inmates and their legal reps. Yes, ALL CALLS ARE RECORDED, as the sign says, but certain calls shouldn’t be. Securus did it en masse, hoovering up 14,000 privileged calls over an unspecified time period. The total […]
REPORT: U.S. Spending on Prisons Grew at Three Times the Rate of Public School Spending…
State and local spending on prisons and jails has increased at triple the rate of funding for public education for preschool through grade P-12 education in the last three decades…
EU Passes Motion Calling for Secret CIA Prisons Investigation…
The EU on Wednesday passed a resolution calling on EU member states to investigate the operation of secret CIA prisons, black sites, on European soil…