Posts Tagged ‘prison’

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.



Immigrant Families With Kids Detained

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 Gets Prison Time for Protecting Sources

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.



Book Review: Life in Prison

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.



What is Guantanamo Bay Prison?

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.