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The Department of Justice announced that it will phase out its use of private prisons. There's no need for them with the declining population of federal prisoners.

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The prison inmate phone call business is a multi-billion dollar industry that has been gouging families and those locked up behind bars for years. FCC…

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A new report from MetricMaps details a shocking statistic — in 16 states in the nation, there are more people locked up in correctional facilities than those…

National

Overcrowding has long plagued Chicago’s Cook County jail and Commissioner Larry Suffredin, (D-13th),  has proposed using taxpayer dollars to bail out low-level inmates who are…

National

Many of us were still on a post-Inaugural high even after King Day. Took me a minute to snap out of the euphoria. President Barack…