A Look Inside the Lives of Home Imprisonment

Private companies have developed a strategy to incarcerate individuals for their alleged crimes by strapping GPS shackles on their ankles. The use for these devices have more than doubled in the past decade. The largest providers of these devices in the United States are BI Incorporated and Securus Technologies. Both companies had histories of unethical profiting and exploiting criminalized populations. They’re also the targets of protests and court cases.

Reuniting a Mother and Her Son

It's been almost four years since Joyce Davis has seen her sons. As a client of Equal Justice Under Law — a Detroit area mother and grandmother who is living on a fixed income and battling cancer — was not allowed to visit her two sons in prison because of unpaid traffic tickets. She owed $1485 to the state.

New Federal Prison Policies May Put Books and Email on Ice

World Book and Copyright Day falls on April 23rd each year. To mark the occasion, Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, observed that "Books are at the intersection of some of the most essential human freedoms, primarily freedom of expression and freedom to publish. These are fragile freedoms. "