In this article, I examine penal labor as it unfolds in one particular carceral site, namely California's prison fire camps in which state prisoners do manual labor and fight fires. The results reveal that binaries in which prison labor is positioned as either entirely good or entirely ...
In California, the 6,000 female prisoners now account for nearly 7% of the state’s prisoners after a one-year jump of 22.6%, the Justice Department found. Advertisement Though federal and state prisons in 1989 increased their capacities by 40,000 to 60,000 beds, the report found, that ef...
California outlawed slavery in 1850 in its first state constitution, but it held onto a clause that is still in effect 174 years later that allows prisons to demand inmates to work various jobs or be penalized. Cox said his own experience working in prison kitchens and as a prison jan...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The planned closure of a federal women’s prison in California notorious for staff-on-inmate sexual abuse won’t occur before each inmate’s status has been reviewed, with an eye toward determining who will be transferred elsewhere or released, auth...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Friday appointed a special master to oversee a troubled federal women’s prison in California known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates, marking the first time the Bureau of Prisons has been subject to suc...
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