Sexual abuse of incarcerated individuals causes significant harm. The physical and psychological trauma is obvious. According to research, even supposedly consensual relationships undermine the security of the prison.
Violence has become somewhat ordinary in Alabama prisons. But lawmakers don't want to make changes for fear of seeming "soft on crime."
Last week, Reason's C.J. Ciaramella published an article about Kimberly Bender, a 23-year-old woman who committed suicide earlier this year. Struggling with drug addiction and depression, Bender ultimately committed suicide after John Gray, a former prison guard at Forks City Jail in Washington, subjected her
According to the Children’s Defense Fund, the American justice system arrests and detains almost 2,000 people under the age of 18 every single day. In 2018, more than 700,000 children were arrested. On any given night, facilities house over 40,000 children and about 1,000 are