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Corrections Officials Stealing Prisoners’ Identities a Growing Problem

Corrections officials tend to have a single-track mindset: guards oversee prisoners to maintain security and order. But what if the looking glass needs to be reversed, and the jailers must be overseen instead? With identity theft perpetrated by prison and jail employees on the rise, that option must be seriously considered. But who would want

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Can Obama set the US on the path to prison reform?

A few weeks ago I wrote about the passing of a landmark revision to the United Nations’ “Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.” In it, I questioned why the United States, a key player in the revision process, had remained so quiet since the announcement, positing that the silence was in large part due

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What “The Mandela Rules” mean for American prisons.

For 55 years, the international community has used the “Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners” as a guideline for structuring their criminal justice and penal systems. The document had never been amended (aside from one additional rule in 1977), let alone revised, until this year. On May 22nd, the United Nations ushered in

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