Poison Prison: Is toxic dust sickening inmates locked up in coal country?
The prison at Fayette sits adjacent to a massive coal ash dump site. For years, local LaBelle residents, and more recently prison guards at Fayette, have complained that the site has been making them sick.
Up-to-date Fact Sheet
Now that the Bill has assigned Bill numbers, we wanted everyone to have an up-to-date version of the fact sheet.
The Hidden Cost of JPay’s Prison Email Service
Thanks to public pressure, inmates and their families won't have to give up the intellectual property rights to their communications when they use JPay's email and video visitation services.
Save the Date: June 9th
Justice Reinvestment Act Public Hearing
Chicago Screening of “Kick the Kickbacks” by Illinois Campaign for Prison Phone Justice
Those paying the high costs of phone calls to their loved ones incarcerated are featured in this video, "Kick the Kickbacks," with a panel to follow moderated by Project NIA's Mariame Kaba.
The Ecology of a Police State: HRDC’s panel at the 2015 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
A panel exploring the intersections between mass incarceration and environmental degradation