Tom Gores, owner of the Detroit Pistons, also owns notoriously abusive prison telecom and banking giant Aventiv.
Incarceration
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Prison Officials Block Access to the Media
Journalists are having trouble contacting sources, and inmates who speak on the record face retaliation.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The ICE Facility Where Almost Every Detainee Has Coronavirus
The dark history of the Farmville, Virginia, detention center, run by Immigration Centers of America, a company with a long history of abuse—and political spending
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up
As California attorney general, she spent years subverting a 2011 Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to reduce its prison population. The overseeing judicial panel nearly found the state in contempt of court.
Posted inPolitics
Confessions of a Tough-on-Crime Progressive
Throughout the 1990s, Democrats supported punitive criminal justice laws. The nation has changed, and Democrats must do likewise.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Fighting to Release Prisoners From a COVID-19 Death Sentence
The Bureau of Prisons knows they need to release people to stop the spread of COVID-19. So why aren’t they?
Posted inLaw and Justice
How to Stop Phone Companies and Sheriffs From Exploiting Inmates’ Families
The HEROES Act could make calling incarcerated family members less prohibitively costly.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Filling the Maternal-Care Gap in Prison
Nonprofit pregnancy support organizations help strengthen bonds between incarcerated women and their newborn children.
Posted inLaw and Justice
‘This Virus Kills Way Too Many People.’ Hunger-Striking ICE Detainees Demand Answers.
Across the country, hunger strikes in ICE detention centers are taking on new urgency during the pandemic.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Cameroonian Asylum Seeker, Detained for Three Years, Released From ICE Custody
A lawsuit brought the release of four asylum seekers in California during the coronavirus outbreak. But advocates warn this is just the beginning.
