Last year, when Democrats controlled all three branches of government, they passed a law to end prison gerrymandering.
Young inmates are five times more likely to be sexually assaulted, says Just Detention International, an organisation devoted to ending prison rape.
Other demands include implementing education, rehabilitation, and reentry programs, expanding the Alabama Innocence Inquiry Commission, which works to exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals, and ending "prison slavery".
It's really not about ending prisons for public safety or to reduce costs, it's about the deliverance of a nation.
For Mr. Chen, a career that had started with literary yearnings ended in prison.
Between 2010 and 2014, 595 cases of homosexuality were "investigated" — some ended with prison sentences.
In the end, prison was clearly exacerbating their problems and confirming their view of themselves as criminals.
In the end, prison officials shaved one year off his 18-year sentence, a gesture of leniency often granted to inmates in failing health.
Lib Dems: End prison sentences for personal drugs possession.
"Things no longer end in prison anymore.
Exclusion does not end with prison but begins there.
