News & updates
The latest from Ajay’s case and the movement behind it.
Prison Statistics
There is an interesting article on the AlterNet website comparing incarceration statistics of the US vs. other countries. Click here to read the article.
Risk of Detaining Low Risk Offenders
Many low-risk detainees are held in jail during pretrial. When these defendants are held for longer than 24 hours, they are nearly 40 percent more likely to commit new crimes…
Stuck In Jail
In county jails, 6 out of 10 inmates are stuck behind bars not because of any risk to the outside community or the likelihood they would fail to appear in…
Jason Hernandez
Jason Hernandez was one of eight federal prisoners convicted of crack cocaine offenses whose sentences were recently commuted by President Obama. Hernandez was scheduled to die behind bars for selling
“Kids For Cash”
Democracy Now interviewed Jamie Quinn who caught up in Pennsylvania’s corrupt “kids for cash” judicial system when he was 14 years old. We wrote about this story earlier but to…
Private Prison Reform
The largest private prison in Idaho will be taken over by the state due to a decade of mismanagement by Corrections Corporation of America, a private company from Nashville, Tennessee. …
Militarizing the Police
Tom Dispatch has a very good article about how society changes when we use the police to help solve social problems and sooner or later everyone will be treated like…
Federal Prison Crisis
The federal prison system has been determined to be an “increasingly critical threat” according to the inspector general of the Justice Department. In a report released by the Justice Department…
Message From Ajay Dev December 2013
Dear Family, Friends, Supporters and Well-Wishers, This letter comes to you with greetings of the Holiday season, peace and blessings. It has been since June 2011 that I have last written to you. Sadl
Triple the Time For Court Trials
A new Human Rights Watch study of federal prosecutions and sentences has found a disturbing trend that Americans fighting drug charges in federal courts are given three times as long a sentence when…
Michael Morton An Innocent Man
Michael Morton spent 25 years in prison and lost the privilege of raising his young son because the prosecutor withheld critical evidence that would have exonerated him in the murder…
Life Sentences For Petty Crimes
According to a recently released report by the ACLU, more than 3,200 people were serving life in prison without parole for nonviolent crimes. Most of these crimes were minor drug related…