Saved Lives or Lost Time? Prisoners Set Free Thanks to DNA Testing
DNA testing has reopened many court cases long after the accused were sent to prison. These men and women had to sit in jail until science became accurate enough to set them free.
DNA testing has reopened many court cases long after the accused were sent to prison. These men and women had to sit in jail until science became accurate enough to set them free.
There is a place in Texas where over 200 children are being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because they do not have proper documents to be in the United States.
Journalist Josh Wolf spent more time in jail than any journalist in U.S. history for the reason of protecting sources. Josh was jailed for refusing to turn over a video he took to a grand jury and for refusing to name the people in the video, which was of protesters at a 2005 demonstration in San Francisco.
In this book, Tookie Williams describes prison conditions and challenges kids to spend ten hours alone in a bathroom at home so they may begin to understand how it feels to live in captivity.
Learn about this U.S. military prison where people from other countries are held without a court hearing, and about the human rights situation inside the prison.