During the American Civil War, Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia became notorious for its brutal conditions. Union prisoners were packed into overcrowded rooms with little food, no proper sanitation, ...
The directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary open up about Alabama's prison system, Kay Ivey and Steve Marshall.
Most Americans don’t know what it’s like inside the United States’ 1,664 state and federal prisons. 1 Yet even those who believe the primary purpose of incarceration is to deter crime or to inflict ...